Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Haieff, Alexei, 1914-1994 Komodore, Bill Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Published / Created:
c1980.
Call Number:
Za W255 980B
Image Count:
3
Description:
"Three hundred and fifty copies numbered 1-350 are for sale. Twenty-six copies lettered A-Z are for the use of the author ... All copies contain a specially printed copy of the musical score ... signed by the composer. All copies are signed by the author and the illustrator"--P. [37], Accompanied by a specially printed copy of the musical score (11 p.)., and This is number E. Manuscript notes on title page by Robert Penn Warren.
Publisher:
Pressworks,
Subject (Name):
Haieff, Alexei,--1914---Autograph, Komodore, Bill--Autograph, Warren, Robert Penn,--1905-1989--Autograph, and Warren, Robert Penn,--1905-1989--Ms notes
The journal of Lewis and Clarke, to the mouth of the Columbia River beyond the Rocky Mountains. In
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780, Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809, and Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820
Subject (Topic):
Cree language --Glossaries, vocabularies, etc and Indians of North America