This single parchment leaf on thin, smooth parchment is small and elegant in its script and helpful for teaching manuscript production and provenance. The alternating initials in red and blue and the follicle marks lead into discussion of making…
This single paper leaf from an early printed book demonstrates the ways in which early print attempted to emulate medieval manuscript layout, from the larger initials and paragraph marks to the marginal annotation. In a classroom, gently feeling the…
If Beardsley had an “opposite number” among women contemporaries, it was the novelist Ada Leverson (1862–1933). Like him, she was gifted, mischievous, and incapable of passing up a chance to satirize her contemporaries, even (or especially) her…
First published in the United States and subsequently in Great Britain, Confessions was one of the popular, fictionalized “true crime” accounts that continued to whet the public’s appetite for crime stories.
This small, sixteen-page, unprepossessing volume—Volume 1, No. 11, of the “Multum in Parvo Library”—precedes The Long Arm and Other Detective Tales (1895), which Ellery Queen called “an important book—the first legitimate detective story anthology…
The Man Trap was a contest book that advertised $1,500 in prize money for the best solutions to the mystery. When the publishers were advised by the federal government that the rules made the contest partially one of chance and therefore a…
One 8-page part from the first edition plus 24 16-page parts from the second edition.
This was an early purchase I made as I started to collect nautical fiction. A few years later I bought some disbound parts and noticed that they were eight-page…