Box 2
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Folder 44
File — Box: 2, Folder: 44
Identifier: Folder 44
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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
Leaf from a Guide to Tounges by John Minsheu, 1617
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 44
Identifier: Item 44
Scope and Contents
This leaf is from a Guide to "Tounges by John Minsheu", and is said to be the first Comparative Linguistic Dictionary, brought out in England and apparently the first book ever sold by subscription in advance. This dictionary is compiled of eleven languages. It was printed at the charges of the author for John Browne, "Bibliopola", ie, Bookseller, London, 1617. The recto side of this leaflet is page 21; the verso side is page 22.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1617