Guide to Topics
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Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902)
A barrister of Lincoln's Inn, Bailey is a poet who came to the fore in the time between the Romantics and Victorians. He is one whom William Aytoun named as a member of the 'Spasmotic School' of poets.
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BALLOONING
See entry for Aeronautica
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Beach, Sylvia (1887-1962)
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), the American author, publisher, and owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Company, the Paris bookshop that was a meeting-point for French, English, Irish and American writers during the 1920's and 1930's.
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BEHRMAN COLLECTION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
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LUDWIG, RICHARD M. “THE HOWARD T. BEHRMAN BEQUEST.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 48, no. 2, 1987, pp. 191–199. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26404512
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BISHOP, JOHN PEALE, Class of 1917 (1892-1944)
John Peale Bishop was a noted author, poet, and editor. Born in 1892 in Charles Town, West Virginia, Bishop entered Princeton University in 1913, where he edited the Nassau Literary Magazine. Upon graduation in 1917, he published his first volume of poetry, but his literary career was put on hold when he was commissioned in the United States Infantry during World War I. He returned to the United States in 1920 and joined the staff of Vanity Fair, where he later became managing editor. He began publishing his own poetry but met very little success, so he moved to a small town in France with his new wife. However, the European literary scene was similarly unreceptive to Bishop’s work, and he returned to the United States a few years later. Among his most known works are Many Thousands Gone, Now with His Love, Minute Particulars, Act of Darkness, and The Hours, an elegy for his dear friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Black history
Includes collections relating to the black diaspora, including African-American history, slavery, and policy.
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Book history and arts
Includes collections relating to book publishing, book collecting, and book design.
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Brand Books
A printed register of brands used by individuals and companies to identify their livestock. Generally intended as a portable and utilitarian object, the typical brand book of the American West was often carried by working cowboys on the range.
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British literature
Covers collections relating to literature and publishing in Britain and Ireland. Included are the papers of individual authors, editors, and publishers, as well as research collections on topics relating to British literature and the papers of literary scholars. Also present are artificial collections on individual authors and topics. Highlights include the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists and the Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature.
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Byzantine Coinage
The core collection contains about 700 coins in gold, silver, bronze. Some of these have been described, together with examples in the Princeton University Art Museum, in S. Curcic and A. St. Clair, eds.,Byzantium at Princeton (Princeton,1986). The Byzantine coins from Princeton’s Antioch Excavations of the 1930s number about 3,000, chiefly bronze denominations from the period up to about 650 and during the tenth and eleventh century Byzantine re-occupation of the area. These holdings are constantly being expanded, with the support of the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund; the acquisition of the Peter Donald Collection in 2016 added about 6,000 Byzantine coins, chiefly in silver and bronze up to 1204, and in all metals thereafter.