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[De Vinne fragments : collection of title-pages, dedications, printer's devices, etc. taken from books published throughout Europe]

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Description: Collection of title-pages, dedications, frontispieces, printer's devices, colophons, and other printing examples removed from books published in Europe from 1500-1800. The majority of examples are from Great Britain and the Netherlands, but German and French publications are represented as well. The fragments are mostly mounted, sometimes several to a page. Some fragments are tipped in. Three title pages are laid into the beginning of volume 1. Items which have been identified as within scope of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) have been matched and assigned individual call numbers composed of the call number, plus page number (e.g. 114920:1; 114920:441, etc.). Items matched to the ESTC may also be searched individually in the catalog. Individual internal title pages from Austin, William. Devotionis Augustinianae flamma, or, Certaine devout, godly, and learned meditations. London, 1637 (ESTC S106869) are scattered throughout the two volumes.
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Production date: [1500-1800]

Jones, William, 1746-1794. The muse recalled, an ode, [title page]

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Imprint: [Twickenham] : Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1781. Notes: The title page and 8 text pages of this work are inlaid and interleaved with various portraits, see items 73-90 following. Bibliographic Reference(s): Hazen, A.T. A bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, Detached Pieces, 28; ESTC, T41634 View the Huntington Online Catalog record.

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Huth fragments

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Collection of early printing fragments. The majority are leaves from early English books printed in London from 1492 to 1575, including items by Richard Pynson and Wynkyn de Worde. Printing from Edinburgh, the Netherlands, and Mallorca is also included, as well as two groups of 17th-century title pages (131401:49) and miscellaneous frontispieces and engravings (131401:50a). Originally bound in a folio scrapbook with Huth ex-libris, bound by Riviere in 3/4 red morocco with marbled endpapers, with some fragments laid in. In the late 1920s this was disbound and housed in boxes. The Huth library bookplate was preserved and housed in Box 1. The whereabouts of the earlier binding is unknown.

131401:28-131401:53

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Huth fragments

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131401:00-131401:27

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Vol. 1. Title and dedication pages; Plates 1-9

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A collection of 50 mammoth plate photographs of Yosemite, the New Almaden Mine, and Mendocino, California by photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916). The prints were in a two-volume set, now disbound, containing a title page dated 1863 and a dedication page reading: "To Ernest Frignet / His California Friends / April 1864." The photographs are landscape views of Yosemite and the Mariposa giant sequoias, taken by Watkins in 1861, followed by 1863 views of New Almaden Quicksilver Mine and Mendocino, both in Northern California. The mining series includes views of workers and the miners' community of small houses and wooden shacks. One view shows young boys with wheelbarrows of rock. The Mendocino Coast images focus on lumber mills near the mouths of Big River, Albion River, and Noyo River, with one view of Native Americans, possibly Pomo, in front of wood plank dwellings, and a group of soldiers at Fort Bragg.

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Collection of early printing fragments originally from the Huth Library

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This collection contains early printing fragments. The majority are leaves from early English books printed in London from 1492 to 1575, including items by Richard Pynson and Wynkyn de Worde. Printing from Edinburgh, the Netherlands, and Mallorca is also included, as well as two groups of 17th-century title pages (RB 131401:49) and miscellaneous frontispieces and engravings (RB 131401:50a). Originally bound in a folio scrapbook with Huth ex-libris, bound by Riviere in 3/4 red morocco with marbled endpapers, with some fragments laid in. In the late 1920s this was disbound and housed in boxes. The Huth library bookplate was preserved and housed in Box 1; whereabouts of the earlier binding is unknown.

131401:01-131401:53

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Collection of early printing fragments originally from the Huth library, (bulk 1500-1575)

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[De Vinne fragments : collection of title-pages, dedications, printer's devices, etc. taken from books published throughout Europe]

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Jones, William, 1746-1794. The muse recalled, an ode, [title page]

Huth fragments

Huth fragments

Vol. 1. Title and dedication pages; Plates 1-9

Collection of early printing fragments originally from the Huth Library

Collection of early printing fragments originally from the Huth library, (bulk 1500-1575)