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Receipt for sale of a suite of 24 plates, "Panthéon,"
Manuscripts
This is a receipt for sale of a suite of 24 plates for Piranesi's drawings of the Pantheon. It is in French. It is dated "9 Ventose,l'an XII."
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Westall, Richard, 1765-1836. Westall's Illustrations of Byron's Works, with Suitable Extras, and a Brief Memoir
Manuscripts
Bound volume, 31 pages (with 28 blank pages interleaved between the illustrative plates); the printed illustrative plates were drawn by Richard Westall and engraved by various artists. The "brief memoir" of Bryon and the "suitable extras" (short extracts from various poems by Bryon) are written in an unknown hand and signed with the initials: "MM" and dated, 1834. The volume also has the bookplate of Henry Ecroyd Smith on the inside front cover.
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Set of 20 plates made from steel engravings, circa 1810
Visual Materials
One set of 20 plates made from steel engravings, ca. 1810. The plates have been disbound from an unnamed book source. Only the first plate is numbered. Most, if not all, of the images are of Biblical figures, such as Jesus, Mary, John and Peter. None of the images are labeled, except for Peter and John, whose names are written below the image in ms., in pencil. The first plate contains numbered geometric and simple head and shoulder drawings. Each of the remaining plates contains two images (head only) per plate. Title supplied by cataloger.
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Manchester Print Works
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The Jay T. Last collection of fashion prints and ephemera contains approximately 7,500 items dating from the 1570s to the early 1900s, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1825 to 1900. This collection consists of fashion plates, advertising prints, broadsides, and promotional ephemera produced for clothiers and tailors, dry goods suppliers, garment manufacturers, fashion publications, and textile companies affiliated with the design, production, and/or sale of clothing, accessories, and dry goods. While most of the materials are American, there are also notable quantities of foreign items in the collection, including French fashion plates, fez labels in several languages, and foreign textile labels. Labels affixed to textile samples of various sizes are also included. Materials are broadly divided into two series: small-size items (11 x 14 inches or smaller) and large-size items (typically larger than 11 x 14 inches). Small-size items are described broadly at the series level; large-size items and select small-size items are fully inventoried with printers, artists, and publishers indexed by name. The collection includes 250 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic advertising prints and fashion plates. Small-size items number approximately 7,250 and contain a variety of promotional materials including trade cards, calendars, booklets, product labels, fashion plates, periodicals, clippings, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. Each series is divided into subseries according to the kind of business, service, or trade sponsoring the advertisement. Types of businesses have been identified according to the principal type of product(s) manufactured or sold by the business. These subseries are arranged as follows: Accessories; Clothiers, Tailors, and Dry Goods; Fashion Plates And Periodicals; Footwear; Garments; Headwear; Sewing Supplies; and Textiles. This collection contains many American and European printed illustrations, commonly known as "fashion plates," that typically depict men, women, or children modeling current clothing and dress styles. Small plates (usually 14 x 10 inches or less in this collection) illustrated the pages of magazines and bound volumes that were marketed specifically for women. Larger plates, primarily intended for display, advertised the products and services of fashion designers, tailors, and pattern makers. The collection provides a resource for studying clothing and dress, sales and merchandise, textiles, and sewing, as well as changing fashion trends in the United States and Europe in the 19th century. The images are primarily promotional in nature and provide information about the history of the American fashion, clothing, dry-goods, and textile industries and the evolution of their advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Elmore Leonard's Bandits
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Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-cop, an ex-con, and an ex-nun. They've got their eyes on several million bucks intended for the Contras; with their unique set of skills and their crazily clever plan, they're sure to make out like bandits -- if they live so long.
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Landon Course of Cartooning
Visual Materials
One set of plates to accompany The Landon Course of Cartooning, published by C.N. Landon, Cleveland, Ohio, copyright 1914-1919. This set consists of a total of 27 plates that were issued with the cartooning coursebooks. Each lesson is comprised of several plates: Lesson No. 1, "Lines", plates 1-4; "The Head", plates 1-4; "Expression", plates 1-3; "The Hand," plates 1-2; "The Foot", 1 plate; "Comic Figures", plates 1-3; "Action", plates 1-4; "Women", plates 1-4 and "Shading", plates 1-3. Some plates is printed "Copyrighted 1914 [or 1919] by C.N. Landon" in the lower right-hand corner. Also with this set of plates are 11 sheets of drawing paper which contain original artwork, presumably based on the models given in the plates. The plates are in various sizes; the dimensions provided are for the largest of the plates. Alt title supplied by cataloger.
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