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Folder 33

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 33
Identifier: Folder 33
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 Book of Gems, 1837

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 33
Identifier: Item 33
Scope and Contents

From "The Book of Gems", the Poets and artists of Great Britain. It was edited by S. C. Hall, and bears the imprint of Saunders and Otley, London. It was published in 1873. Each leaf has a poem and a repruduction in a steel engraving from an artist. The recto side of the leave is page 218.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1837