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The binding of books : an essay in the history of gold-tooled bindings
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136074
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A collection of drawings, etchings, prints, and watercolors originally part of a bound volume; the material is related to Charles Dickens, his life, and some of the characters from his books, including "Nicholas Nickleby," "The Old Curiosity Shop," "Oliver Twist," and "The Pickwick Papers." Also included are drawings of Dickens and his wife, Catherine Dickens, and their visit to America in 1842. The material was created by various artists including Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Daniel Maclise, Joseph Kenny Meadows, Pierre Morand, Frederick Sem, and Sir Leslie Ward ("Spy"). Also included is the original binding.
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Separated bindings
Manuscripts
A collection of letters written from 1895 to 1898, by Aubrey Beardsley to the English publisher, Leonard Charles Smithers. The letters are written from various locations including London, Epsom, Bournemouth, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Paris, Dieppe, and Mention, France. Separated binding included in box 4.
mssHM 12590-12744
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Correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, and photographs of the Ward and Thoreau families. The correspondence consists of letters to Prudence Ward from Sophia, Maria, and Helen Thoreau and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn's letters to Anne J. Ward (1905, some with enclosed manuscripts). Also included are individual letters by Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Edmund Quincy Sewall, and George Washington Ward. The letters discuss the Alcott family, Mary Merrick Brooks, Lidian Jackson Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and the Thoreau family; American Antislavery Society, Cherokee Nation, Southworth & Hawes daguerreotypes, family affairs, social news, etc.
mssHM 68710-68772