Box 2
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Folder 46
File — Box: 2, Folder: 46
Identifier: Folder 46
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
Leaf from The New World of Words, 1678
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 46
Identifier: Item 46
Scope and Contents
A leaf from "The New World of Words", a general English dictionary that also has the functions of an encyclopaedia. The title-page says "Collected and published by E.P. and printed by W.R. for Robert Harford," in 1678 at London. E.P. was Edward Philips, John Milton's nephew and pupil.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1678