Autograph: Langston Hughes (, On t.p. in Hughes’ ms: "Poems by myself, pages 208-209--Langston Hughes", Poems in ms. written by Hughes on 3 blank p. at end., and Presentation inscription from the editor: "With great admiration for a great poet--Langston Hughes."
Publisher:
The Active Press, Inc
Subject (Name):
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Subject (Topic):
Labor movement --Poetry, Socialism --Poetry, and Working class --Poetry
Siegfried Sassoon's copy of the first, unexpurgated issue of Robert Graves's Good-bye To All That (1929), annotated and with clippings. Sassoon's annotations include personal comments, many critical, and factual corrections, most relating to Graves's account of his service in the war. Clippings, pasted in and loose, include reviews, illustrations, and letters to the editor. With one typescript reply to Sassoon from publisher Jonathan Cape, dated November 1929, identifying corrections to be made, at Sassoon's request, to the remaining, undistributed copies of the first issue.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some clippings in Swedish, Dutch, and French., Purchased from Christie's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2007., Robert Graves (1895-1985), English author., and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English author.
Subject (Name):
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Good-bye to all that., Graves, Robert,--1895-1985., Jonathan Cape (Firm), and Sassoon, Siegfried,--1886-1967.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, English.
Extensive holograph annotations in The spectator (London: Printed by H. Hughs, for Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis ...,1789).
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Hughes in volumes 1-7., Binding: contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt. Spines gilt with red morocco gilt title labels., Formerly owned by Prince Albert. Ex libris Thomas Hughes. Formerly owned by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. Formerly owned by Paula Peyraud. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2009., Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821), author and diarist, published one of the first biographies of Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786); her Thraliana, a combined diary and commonplace book, was not published until 1942., and Piozzi's annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays; variations in women's fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719., Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861--Autograph, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Anecdotes, Hughes, Thomas--Bookplate., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Anecdotes, Peyraud, Paula, 1947-2008--Ownership, Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821--Autograph, Spectator (London, England : 1711), and Steele, Richard, 1629-1692.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780
Published / Created:
1778
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 562
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Manuscript in an unidentified hand, signed with the initials "D. T. B. B.", of a Spanish translation of this epistolary novel by Leprince de Beaumont.
Alternative Title:
Lettres de Madame Du Montier. Spanish
Description:
Binding: full marbled calf; marbled endpapers., Former call number: Uncat MSS 699., and Madame Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780) was a French novelist, best-known for her version of Beauty and the beast.
Subject (Name):
Leprince de Beaumont,--Madame--(Jeanne-Marie),--1711-1780
Subject (Topic):
French fiction--18th century, French literature--Translations into Spanish, Spanish literature--18th century, and Spanish literature--Translations into French
Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
Image Count:
168
Description:
Imperfect: some pages removed; other pages mutilated with some loss of text., In four sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately., and Volume contains a mixture of foliation, pagination and unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
Subject (Topic):
Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
Image Count:
189
Description:
In three sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately. and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
Subject (Topic):
Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
Manuscript on paper of Albertus Magnus, Commentary on Book 4 of the Sentences of Peter Lombard.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on five slit, tawed straps laced into wooden boards. Endband cores laid in grooves. Covered with white, tawed skin, blind-tooled with a St. Andrew's cross within panel borders. The covering leather is sewn around the endbands, from spine to edges, with a back-stitch. Traces of round bosses, probably brass, and of two strap and pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 573). Given to Yale in 1929 by Mrs. J. L. Leipziger., Plain initials in red and rubrics throughout., Script: Gothic cursive script of three hands. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-156v; Scribe 2) ff. 157r-274r; Scribe 3, Laurence of Mechlin, wrote ff. 274r-317r and dated the codex 1452., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Ancre 381, Balance 2427, Tete de boeuf 15102.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholasticism, and Scholia