Crown King and the Southern Bradshaws
Author : Bruce M. Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Bradshaw Mountains Region (Ariz.)
ISBN : 9780962757303
Author : Bruce M. Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Bradshaw Mountains Region (Ariz.)
ISBN : 9780962757303
Author : Ellen Douglas Larned
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Windham County (Conn.)
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465600760
The Countryman. "You know how much, for some time past, the editions of the Elzevirs have been in demand. The fancy for them has even penetrated into the country. I am acquainted with a man there who denies himself necessaries, for the sake of collecting into a library (where other books are scarce enough) as many little Elzevirs as he can lay his hands upon. He is dying of hunger, and his consolation is to be able to say, 'I have all the poets whom the Elzevirs printed. I have ten examples of each of them, all with red letters, and all of the right date.' This, no doubt, is a craze, for, good as the books are, if he kept them to read them, one example of each would be enough." The Parisian. "If he had wanted to read them, I would not have advised him to buy Elzevirs. The editions of minor authors which these booksellers published, even editions 'of the right date,' as you say, are not too correct. Nothing is good in the books but the type and the paper. Your friend would have done better to use the editions of Gryphius or Estienne." This fragment of a literary dialogue I translate from 'Entretiens sur les Contes de Fees,' a book which contains more of old talk about books and booksellers than about fairies and folk-lore. The 'Entretiens' were published in 1699, about sixteen years after the Elzevirs ceased to be publishers. The fragment is valuable: first, because it shows us how early the taste for collecting Elzevirs was fully developed, and, secondly, because it contains very sound criticism of the mania. Already, in the seventeenth century, lovers of the tiny Elzevirian books waxed pathetic over dates, already they knew that a 'Caesar' of 1635 was the right 'Caesar,' already they were fond of the red-lettered passages, as in the first edition of the 'Virgil' of 1636. As early as 1699, too, the Parisian critic knew that the editions were not very correct, and that the paper, type, ornaments, and FORMAT were their main attractions. To these we must now add the rarity of really good Elzevirs.
Author : Celia Fiennes
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 1888
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
ISBN :
This journal of George Washington was begun when he was one month over 16 years of age. It is his own daily record of observations during his first remunerated employment.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2009-01-02
Category :
ISBN : 075511728X
Limits and Renewals, Kipling's last collection of short stories, was written shortly after the death of his only son. Dark and penetrating in tone, these are brilliant portraits of a soul in torment with some welcome relief coming in the tales of 'Aunt Ellen' and 'The Miracle of Saint Jubanus'.
Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Clerks
ISBN :
Author : Richard V. N. Ahlstrom
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN :
Author : Peter Massey
Publisher : Adler Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2006-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781930193017
This field guide includes meticulous trail details for 44 offroad routes located near the towns of Phoenix, Wickenburg, Quartzsite (south), Payson, Superior, Globe and Yuma (north). NEW, full COLOR addition to our Trails series! These handy 6x9? books include scenic drives plus a whole lot more! Including some of America's best mountain biking, hiking, camping and fishing areas! Ghost towns galore? Step back into the past while wandering through abandoned mining areas, old buildings, and even entire towns. INCLUDES GPS coordinates throughout each book.
Author : Richard Brooke
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Battlefields
ISBN :