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Contains 2 Results:

Folder 48

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 48
Identifier: Folder 48
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 Dryden's translation of Virgil, 1697

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 48
Identifier: Item 48
Scope and Contents

A leaf from Dryden's translation, The Works of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson in 1697 at London. Full page engraving, “To Sr Bartholomew Shower of the Midle Temple. Knt”.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1697