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‘Maidenly Writings’ • Parthenicon libri iii • ca. 1606

“The writings of the Anglo-Latin poet best known on the Continent in the early seventeenth century were never printed in England.

Fore-edge painting • Ravensworth Castle • Gateshead-on-Tyne

Now in ruins, Ravensworth Castle in County Durham was for several centuries the seat of the Liddell family. ❧ This painting decorates the fore-edge of a 32 cm tall copy of the Carmina of Horace printed in Strasbourg in 1788.

Over-wrap • early 19th century American binding repair

             Binding reinforced and / or repaired with an over-wrap. Partially removed subscription or circulating library label suggests this copy endured regular use. ❧ Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840.

Virgil • 1529

Bucolica Virgilij cum commento familiari. (This title above a woodcut of Virgil, his patron Pollio, and his patron’s son Saloninus.

For the twelfth day of Christmas…

Among the traditional Christmas songs is “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” a memory-and-forfeits game played by the fire that describes the staggering array of gifts bestowed upon one person.  The song has inspired many parodies, most of them too lame to …

For the twelfth day of Christmas…

Among the traditional Christmas songs is “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” a memory-and-forfeits game played by the fire that describes the staggering array of gifts bestowed upon one person.  The song has inspired many parodies, most of them too lame to …

The Exhibition Room, or, why 'Ex' is the location designator for rare books in the Princeton University Library

When Pyne Library opened in 1897
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Berthold’s Political Handkerchief • 1831

Berthold’s Political Handkerchief. No. 1. London, Monday, September 5, 1831. Henry Berthold led the National Union of Working Classes, aiming at universal male suffrage. He printed his newspaper on cotton to evade the government tax on paper.

Rowlandson illustrates Tom Jones

Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson for Tom Jones published in Edinburgh by James Sibbald in 1791, volume 1, page 55: Caption: Partridge cruelly accused and maltreated by his Wife & co.

Vandermaelen Atlas (1827) • First atlas of the world with all maps on the same scale

With funding from the Rare Book Division, the Friends of the Library, and the Historic Maps Collection, in March 2009, the Library acquired a copy of the Philippe Vandermaelen, Atlas universel de géographie physique, politique, statistique et minéralogique . .

Powell’s Canyons of the Colorado

“On my return from the first exploration of the canyons of the Colorado, I found that our journey had been the theme of much newspaper writing.

Santa, Little Miss Christmas, Holly Belle and their creator Elizabeth Anne Voss (alias E. Voss, E. A. Voss, B. Gartrell, Betty Gartrell, and Elizabeth Gartrell).

Some of the most adorable images of the 1950s were reproduced on the covers of paper doll and coloring books, proclaims the web site Paper Goodies from Judy’s Place.

Santa, Little Miss Christmas, Holly Belle and their creator Elizabeth Anne Voss (alias E. Voss, E. A. Voss, B. Gartrell, Betty Gartrell, and Elizabeth Gartrell).

Some of the most adorable images of the 1950s were reproduced on the covers of paper doll and coloring books, proclaims the web site Paper Goodies from Judy’s Place.

Eyewitnesses to the Civil War

In a letter dated January 19, 1863, Captain Isaac Plumb, Jr., a Civil War soldier of the 61st New York Infantry of the Union Army who fought in many major battles of the war, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the …

RBSC Firestone December Holiday Hours

Dulles Reading Room CLOSED Monday and Tuesday December 24 and 25 OPEN Wednesday to Friday December 26 to 28 CLOSED Monday and Tuesday December 31 to January 1 Regular Reading Room Hours Monday to Friday, 9-4:45 pm Galleries (Main, Milberg, Cotsen) …

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