Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Paleography and scroll painting
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
The collection contains 26 scrolls in a variety of poetic forms and typefaces printed by Wilder Bentley. The titles are: Scroll A. On the revival of the Archetype Press.--Scroll B. Palingenesis.--Scroll C. Volleys of vers libres.--Scroll D. Darlene Dooley, the schoolmistress beyond compare.--Scroll E. San Bruno's first summit conference.--Scroll F. Recent sonnets on the art of the book & its artificers.--Scroll G. The Bentleiad.--Scroll H. The Bentleiad, continuing in its mockful ministrations to parapendantism.--Scroll I. The Bentleiad, resuming the account of its hero's pilgrimage toward Parnassian heights.--Scroll J. In fivefold seizures.--Scroll K. The Pestalozzi sequence.--Scrolls L-N. Some Pestalozzian consequences.--Scroll O-Q. According to the wisdom of an angel.--Scroll R. Let seven be the number of young light.--Scroll S. Some Pestalozzian conclusions.--Scroll T. The final sonnets of Wilder Bentley the Elder.--Scroll U. Recollections in tranquillity of the calligraphy of time & tide.--Scroll V. Where Atlas flings his shadow far o'er the western foam.--Scroll W. In memoriam.--Scroll X. Epistle dedicatory to a curator of grace.--Scroll Y. Epistle juratory to Arion's dolphin.--Scroll Z. Epistle supererogatory to Muir Dawson.
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Manuscripts
These scrolls are unidentified
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Visual Materials
Image of title lettering on a scrolled banner displayed diagonally.
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