Bookmen's Holiday. Notes and Studies Written and Gathered in Tribute to Harry Miller Lydenberg.

Fulton, D.

Published by New York Public Library, New York, first edition, 1943, 1943

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Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 573 pp, 12 plates. Contents include: Introduction. By Franklin F. Hopper; A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Harry Miller Lydenberg. By George L. McKay; AMERICANA: Randolph G. Adams: A Goodly Company of American Book Collectors; Charles Eberstadt: On Colorado Guidebooks of '59; Alice H. Lerch: Who was the Printer of Jefferson's Notes?; Gerald D. Mcdonald: New Year's Addresses of American Newsboys; Henry L. Mencken: Notes on American Given-names; Emily E. F. Skeel: Not Quite Spurlos Versunkt; Margaret B. Stillwell: Hawkins of the Hawkins Zouaves; Robert W. G. Vail: A Western New York Land Prospectus; Willard O. Waters: Franciscan Missions of Upper California as Seen by Foreign Visitors and Residents; A Whole Man. By Frederick P. Keppel; BOOKMEN AND AUTHORS: Charles E. Goodspeed: Richard Franck; John D. Gordan: The Secret of Dickens' Memoranda; Ruth Shepard Granniss: Thomas Britton; Robert W. Henderson: John Solomon Rarey; Henry W. Kent: Encore Moreau de Saint-Méry; Victor Hugo Paltsits: Herman Melville's Background and New Light on the Publication of Typee; Lydenberg in Cambridge and Neto York. By George Parker Winship; BOOKS IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD: Joshua Bloch: The People and the Book; Meta Harrsen: Figural Grisaille Ornament on a Historiated Initial of about 1400, and the Derivation of this Style from the Indulgences of Avignon; Avrahm Yarmolinsky: A Seventeenth-century Russian Manuscript in The New York Public Library; No Man in Our Time. By Archibald MacLelsh; THE GRAPHIC ARTS: Allen Evarts Foster: 'The Fish I Didn't Catch'; William M. Ivins, Jr.: A Note on the Earliest Precursors of Mezzotinting and Aquatinting; Frank Weitenkampf: Influences and Trends in Nineteenth-century Illustration; A Great Administrator. By Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. HISTORY AND HISTORIANS: William E. Lingelbach: An Early American Historian; Charles Flowers Mccombs: Imprisonment of Madame de Lafayette During theTerror; Henry B. Van Hoesen: John Hay and the Historian's Use of Newspapers; A Builder of Library Research Collections. By Keyes D. Metcalf; LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS: William Warner Bishop: One Problem for 1950 - Woodpulp Paper in Books; Andrew Keogh: Benjamin Silliman's Trip to Europe in 1805; Alexander J. Wall: Ephemeral Library Material, Its Preservation, Care and Value; Wylus E. Wright: Subject Headings in the Reference Department of The New York Public Library; Harry Lydenberg - Bookman. By Frederic G. Melcher. MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT: Thomas J. Holmes: A Letter on Books and Witches; John Mulholland: Magic in the Library; Lydenberg as a Friend. By Royal Cortissoz. PRINTERS, PRINTING AND BINDING: Curt F. Bühler: Variants in English Incunabula; Philip Hofer: Adrian Le Boy and Robert Ballard: Printers of the Late Renaissance; William A. Jackson: Notes on English "Publishers' Bindings" of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Lucius Wllmerding: Le Prince, by Jean Louis Guez de Balzac: Note on a Paris Printing, 1631; Lawrence C. Wroth: The Cambridge Press; Amicus Amico. By Daniel Berkeley Updike; Index.; Humilibus Placent Humilia. By John Archer. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # ABE-48866

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Title: Bookmen's Holiday. Notes and Studies Written...

Publisher: New York Public Library, New York, first edition, 1943

Publication Date: 1943

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition