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Catalogued as number 498, Doves Pattern 662, Book 2037 by Marianne Tidcombe in The Doves Bindery. Bound in full dark blue crushed levant morocco, all edges gilt, gilt title and panel rules to spine. “Line and dot borders, and a large panel tooled…

This single parchment leaf, largely unremarkable for its textual content, demonstrates the materiality of the book. The wear marks and trimming show that it was used as a binding for a subsequent volume and cut down from its original size. In the…

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…

A thick paper copy, rarely seen.

Provenance: Presented by James Madison to James Maury, a confidant and first consul of the United States.

Madison, Hamilton and Jay agreed amongst themselves to write position papers supporting the proposed…

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…