Box 1
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Contains 46 Results:
Folder 20
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: Folder 20
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
Horace miniature leaf, 1828
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 20, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 20
Scope and Contents
From a miniature book from an edition of Horace and published by A. Mesnier in Paris in 1828. The recto side is marked as 35 and the verso side is marked as 36.
Dates:
Publication: 1828
Folder 21
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: Folder 21
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
"History of Savoy" miniature leaf, 1634
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 21
Scope and Contents
This leaf is from a miniature book "History of Savoy", one of the "Republic series" issued by the house of Elzevir at Leyden in 1634. The recto side of this leaf is marked 489; the verso side is marked as 490.
Dates:
Publication: 1634
Folder 22
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: Folder 22
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE
"Utopia" leaf
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 22
Scope and Contents
From a Bruce Rogers Folio, this leaf is from a limited edition of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", printed in New York at the Rudge Press. The recto side is marked 21 and has a definition of lewd in the margin. The verso side is marked as page 22. Only 1500 copies were printed in 1937. This is an English translation of More's work.
Dates:
2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE