Box 4
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 20
File — Box: 4, 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
Leaf from Lucan's Pharsalia, 1718
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 20
Identifier: Item 20
Scope and Contents
From Lucan's "Pharsalia", translated by Nicholas Rowe, "Servant of His Majesty" into English verse. It was printed in 1718 for Jacob Tonson at "Shakespeare's head, over against Katherine-Street in the Strand", London. The recto side of the leaflet is marked 101 and the verso side is marked as 102.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1718