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Rare Books
Sample book containing examples on leather and paper of: type ornaments, stamps, rolls, fillets, personalized stamps, stamping frames in various sizes, die samples and other binding decorations. Various ink colors and gilt are shown. The final two pages contain samples of the Emery Record Preserving Company book labels and printed advertisements.
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Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for L. Prang & Co. with decorative initial letters, graphic borders, and a sprig of holly at bottom left.
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Manuscripts
Burley's book of commentaries on the eighth book of physics by Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) The volume is noteworthy for being written on paper rather than vellum, and features a classic Latin hand with seven major initials in gold and colors, and later comments in the borders. Numbered in modern hand in pencil on pages 36, 60, 95, 173, 197, 226. Renumbered in pencil on bottom page, outer corner prior to rebinding in 2022.
mssHM 75077
Visual Materials
Image of a two-fold price list for L. Prang & Co. for birthday cards, congratulatory cards, and wedding congratulations on satin.
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Manuscripts
An elaborately decorated and painted collection of celebratory verses for the marriage of Lady Magdalen Egerton (d. 1664) to Sir Gervase Cutler (d. 1644), including two painted coats of arms fully blazoned in proper colors and gilt, a watercolor emblem of bowmen with the legend "Omnia Vincit Amor," and a painted and decorated family tree pedigree of the Egerton family. The whole written in an amateur calligraphic hand, with painted borders and minor floral decorations, and with additions in a slightly later hand to 1644. Two of the verses are signed: by "Th. Saintleger" and "Ab. Darbie."
mssHM 68179
Visual Materials
One set of painting cards entitled Tilton's Outline Design Cards, for Studies and Decorative Purposes, 12th Series, printed by S.W. Tilton & Co. Boston, 1880. Each card has a simple printed flower and the flower name. Four cards are represented from the original set of six--Buttercup, Forget-Me-Not, Bachelors Button, and Dandelion. All the cards are gilt-edged. An instructional booklet issued with the set contains two parts: 1) Directions for Mixing Colors, Their Values, &c.: For the use of Beginners, is included. This pamphlet was added to the Directions for Coloring Tilton's Outline Design Cards for Hand Painting in Water Colors, the latter part gives detailed instructions on painting the cards in each of the twelve series. For example, instructions for the card labeled "Buttercup": "Flowers, chrome thin shaded with thicker chrome, and in deepest shadows, grey (cobalt, crimson lake, chrome). Stamens left white, and afterwards washed over with chrome. Leaves and stems, green, (Prussian blue, chrome, and a little crimson lake), shaded with same darker." The instruction booklet lists the "Forget-Me-Not" card under the flower's Latin name: "Myosotis." The cards and the directions were enclosed in an envelope which bore the number of the series hand written, in pencil, in the lower left hand corner.
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