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Box 4

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Folder 31

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
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 Fables of Aesop, 1823

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 31
Identifier: Item 31
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from "The Fables of Aesop". The designs of wood were by Thomas Bewick. It was printed in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1823 by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son. The recto side of the leaf is page 271.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1823