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...

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This leaf is from Estatutos Generales de Barcelona, a book of religious statutes, brought out in Mexico in 1585 by Pedro Ocharte. Both the type and paper were undoubtably imported from Spain. The indentations on the top of the upper margin were from the title being burned into the top of the book. The recto side of the leaf is marked as page 67; the verso side has no page number.