"300 copies of this book have been printed at the Bird & Bull Press on Green's hand made B & B paper. The text was composed in Van Dijck types by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. and the binding was done by E.G. Parrot. The plates and negatives were made by The Beck Engraving Co., and the marbled samples and cover papers were made by Richard J. Wolfe ...."--Page [81]., No. 31. Accompanied by: Prospectus (1 leaf)., and Translation of: Die Kunst des Marmorierens, oder, Die Herstellung von Buchbinder-Buntpapieren mit Wasserfarben auf schleimhaltigem Grund.
Publisher:
Bird & Bull Press,
Subject (Name):
Bird & Bull Press, publisher, Parrot, Gray, bookbinder., and Wolfe, Richard J., ill.
Imperfect: Page 144 rubbed, with partial loss of page no., Includes index., Originally published: Bern : Jenni, Sohn, 1845., and Translation of: Evangelium eines armen Sünders.
Advertisement in French for a hair salon pasted on back free endpaper. Spine of vol. repaired with green paper and written in ms.: Manual of conversation., Table of coins on back lining papers., and Thomas Hardy's copy. Signed in ms.: T. Hardy, 1 Arundel Terrace, Upper Tooting, England. Signed in ms.: Hardy, Wimborne, Dorset, England. Extensive ms. annotations by Hardy. Pasted on front pastedown: booklet with ms. annotations of translated phrases. Newspaper clipping about hotels in Europe pasted on t.p. Newspaper clipping about food prices in Europe pasted at end.
Publisher:
Karl Baedeker,
Subject (Name):
Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Autograph., Hardy, Thomas,--1840-1928--Ms. notes., and Karl Baedeker (Firm)
BEIN Zg18 A13 a812: The gellert poems not identified in g's sämmtliche Schriften 1784. 1. Th., Dedication signed: Ellis Cornelia Knight., Only 30 copies printed., and Selections from G.F. Seiler, C.F. Gellert and others.
Publisher:
Printed by E. Harding,
Subject (Name):
Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott, 1715-1769, Knight, Ellis Cornelia, 1757-1837, and Seiler, Georg Friedrich, 1733-1807
Collection of correspondence with Edith Wharton and others, including Hamilton Aidé, Anna Bahlmann, Bernard Berenson, Walter Berry, William Morton Fullerton, Percy Lubbock, and abbé Arthur Mugnier. The collection features approximately 172 pieces of correspondence from Edith Wharton, consisting of autograph letters, notes, and postcards, signed, dating from 1909 to 1931, as well as sixteen pieces of correspondence from Bélugou to Wharton. Selected letters between Wharton and Bélugou were assembled by Claudine Lesage and published as Lettres à l'ami français (Paris: M. Houdiard, [2001]). Accompanied by several black-and-white photographs of Bélugou and others.
Description:
Chiefly in French; some materials in English, Spanish and German., Léon Bélugou (1865-1934), French educator., and Purchased from Priscilla Juvelis Inc. on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Aïdé, Hamilton, 1826-1906, Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, Bélugou, Léon, 1865-1934, Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959, Berry, Walter, 1859-1927 , Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-1952, and Lesage, Cla
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956 and Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943
Binders leaves : ff. 4-16, 18, 20, 22, 24-25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39-40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51-83 mostly blank with several modern annotations in pencil., ff. 42 : anonymous additions written in England, ca. 1700 (missing from volume)., and On paper with modern foliation in pencil including binder's blanks.
Collection of 73 engraved visiting cards, 55 of which have the visitor's name either printed or written in manuscript. Identified travelers include Lady Mountstuart; Phillipina Deane and her daughter Cornelia; "Il Cavelier Mann" (possibly Horace Mann); Viscountess Hampden; Mrs. Hamlyn of Wimpole Street; the contessa Piccolomini; Columba Danzetta Roncalli; and Le Comte de Collered.