Book Auction Records, Volume 12Frank Karslake Wm. Dawson, 1915 - Autographs A priced and annotated annual record of London, New York and Edinburgh book-auctions. |
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... library - which latter formed no part of the founder's original plan - and although we are now solely concerned with the library it is yet essential , from the fact that the two are so indissolubly linked together , that a short account ...
... library - which latter formed no part of the founder's original plan - and although we are now solely concerned with the library it is yet essential , from the fact that the two are so indissolubly linked together , that a short account ...
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... library constituted no part of the College as founded by Thomas White , and in consequence it was at first almost wholly dependent , in the matter of books . upon the liberality of private donors , who it must be admitted were both ...
... library constituted no part of the College as founded by Thomas White , and in consequence it was at first almost wholly dependent , in the matter of books . upon the liberality of private donors , who it must be admitted were both ...
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... library had sustained through the direful scourge of 1666 were partly replaced by two munificent gifts of books . The first of these was bequeathed in 1682 by George , ninth Earl of Berkeley , who gave the whole of his library ...
... library had sustained through the direful scourge of 1666 were partly replaced by two munificent gifts of books . The first of these was bequeathed in 1682 by George , ninth Earl of Berkeley , who gave the whole of his library ...
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... Library is the famous York Breviary , which was presented in 1655 by Simeon Ashe . Long held to be of small account , and entered in the various catalogues as a Sarum Missal , it was not until 1855 that this priceless relic was ...
... Library is the famous York Breviary , which was presented in 1655 by Simeon Ashe . Long held to be of small account , and entered in the various catalogues as a Sarum Missal , it was not until 1855 that this priceless relic was ...
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... library is Raoul Lefevre's The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye , " translated by Caxton and printed by him and Colard Mansion at Bruges , 1472-4 . This was the first book printed in English , and the one by which Caxton learned his ...
... library is Raoul Lefevre's The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye , " translated by Caxton and printed by him and Colard Mansion at Bruges , 1472-4 . This was the first book printed in English , and the one by which Caxton learned his ...
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Page 234 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality.
Page lxv - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Page 85 - Leaves of Grass," a book of singular service, a book which tumbled the world upside down for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation of all the original and manly virtues.
Page 62 - England, shall be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America...
Page 234 - ... style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of parts.
Page lxviii - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 388 - Journals of Major Robert Rogers : Containing An Account of the Several Excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America during the late War.
Page 225 - In she plunged boldly — No matter how coldly The rough river ran — Over the brink of it, Picture it, — think of it, Dissolute Man! Lave in it, — drink of it, Then, if you can!
Page 217 - Six Old Plays on which Shakespeare founded his Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Taming the Shrew, King John, K.
Page 103 - Sargent was down again and painted a portrait of me walking about in my own dining-room, in my own velveteen jacket, and twisting as I go my own moustache ; at one corner a glimpse of my wife, in an Indian dress, and seated in a chair that was once my grandfather's, but since some months goes by the name of Henry James's — for it was there the novelist loved to sit — adds a touch of poesy and comicality.