Box 4
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 9
File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
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 Iconalogia of Cesare Ripa of Perugia, 1669
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Identifier: Item 9
Scope and Contents
From The Iconalogia of Cesare Ripa of Perugia, with amplifications by Giovanni Zaratino Castillini. It was printed at Venice in 1669 by Niccolo Pezzana. The volume that this leaf was taken from belonged to William Morris and bears his bookplate. The recto side of the page is marked 619 and the verso side is marked 620.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1669