Box 4
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 3
File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
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 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1632
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Identifier: Item 3
Scope and Contents
From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, printed by John Lichfeld at Oxford in 1632. Lichfeld was considered "printer to the famous University". The early editions went under the nom de plum "Democritus junior", because his inspiration was from a similar thesis of the Greek Philososher. The first edition was issued in 1621. The recto side of the page is marked as 553, and the verso side is marked as 554.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1632