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Folder 17

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: Folder 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Pages from the Past leaf books were sold as six different collections with three different releases (18 total sets were sold in editions of varying numbers) between 1964-1966. These were all compiled and sold by the Washington DC-based dealer, Alfred W. Stites of Foliophiles, Inc., who had dismembered original printings and manuscripts specifically for the purpose of selling them in these "portfolio sets", as he referred to them. Western Michigan University Libraries is one of a number of...
Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Miniature leaf, 1828

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17, Object: 1
Identifier: Item 17
Scope and Contents

This leaf is from a miniature book taken from the Diamond Classics, published by William Pickering in London in 1828. The recto side is marked 209; The verso side is marked as 210.

Dates: Publication: 1828