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The sinful city

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Description: Handwritten draft, in pencil, of the novel published as "Ashes of Empire" with acknowledgement, dedication, and table of contents (autograph manuscript signed). Includes corrections in the author's hand and annotations in an unknown hand. Versos blank.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1897
Call number: mssHM 34545
Creator: Chambers, Robert W (1865-1933)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from the Anderson Galleries sale of the James Carleton Young collection (catalog 1390, lot 92), January 15-16 1919.
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Lorraine! : a romance

Manuscripts

Handwritten draft, in pencil, of the novel "Lorraine!" with title page, dedication, acknowledgement, and incomplete table of contents (autograph manuscript signed). Includes corrections in the author's hand. Versos blank.

mssHM 34544

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The cambric mask

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Handwritten draft, in pencil, of the novel "The Cambric Mask," with title page, dedication and table of contents (autograph manuscript signed). Includes corrections in the author's hand. Versos blank.

mssHM 34543

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Yo Espero

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Handwritten draft (autograph manuscript signed), in pencil, of the novelette "Yo Espero," with two title pages. Includes annotations in an unknown hand. Versos blank. Signed "Caroline Duer" under printed poem on the first title page.

mssHM 34551

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A peace ode : [a poem with note of introduction]

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Originally enclosed in: Letter from Robert Seymour Bridges to Sir Henry John Newbolt, May 1903 (HM 36063). Author's notes found on the versos. Annotations in pencil on introductory leaf in the hand of Sir Henry John Newbolt. Corrections are pasted over original.

mssHM 36062

Pontifical : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-214v. [Pontifical]. Latin. ff. 1-3, Table of contents up to f. 193v, with reference to folio numbers; ff. 3-193, Pontifical; f. 193r-v, On the robing of the bishop; ff. 193v-214, Benedictions for the temporale, the sanctorale, the common of saints, the dedication of a church, the anniversary of the dedication of a church, the ordination of a bishop, the coronation of a king, and various other occasions; f. 214v, blank; Back pastedown ("215" in contemporary foliation), note in Spanish added in a cursive hand, on the laying of the corner stone, 15 May 1501, for the cloister of the cathedral under the foreman Gonbal de Hory, and the mass said on that occasion by Bishop Guillen Remon de Moncada (Tarazona, 1496-1521) in the chapel of Bishop Andrés (presumably André Martínez Férriz, Bishop of Tarazona, 1486-95).

mssHM 1078

Incipit Herbarium Apulei Platonici ad Marcum Agrippam

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Work of an unknown author based on the herbal of Dioscorides and later attached to the name of Apuleius Platonicus. A variant issue is known with a dedication to Cardinal della Rovere in place of that to Cardinal Gonzaga. 132 woodcut illustrations. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.6 x 13.8 cm. Signatures: [*⁶ a-m⁸ n⁶ (*1, n6 blank)]. Imperfect: initial blank leaf (leaf [*]1) lacking. Leaves [*]2-[*]6, [a]1, [n]1 and [n]6 lacking and replaced with facsimiles. Huntington Library copy has the illustrations hand-colored and "silked" for conservation. Huntington Library copy is the variant, with dedication to Cardinal della Rovere. Binding: citron morocco. Binder's stamp: Bound by Lloyd London.

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The sinful city

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