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Box 4

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Contains 2 Results:

Folder 28

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: Folder 28
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 the Works of Shakespeare, 1796

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 28
Identifier: Item 28
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from "The Works of Shakespeare" and was printed and published at Philadelphia, 1796 by Bioren and Madan. The version was the first edition to be brought out on the North American Continent. The recto side is page 397 and the verso side is page 398.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796