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Zoe wrote every word in her magazine and performed all duties, from bootblacking to subscriber dunning. She gave herself all the masthead titles, changing them with each issue.  

This 16th-century Hebrew Bible, bound with the New Testament in Syriac, features an almost unbroken record of English ownership dating from 1698 to 1927 and spanning eleven different owners. The endleaves contain a manuscript table of contents in…

This publication is from the wreckage of the successful efforts by other railroads to stop or delay the Rock Island-UP Merger. After a decade of regulatory hearings and conflict, the merger was approved, but the Union Pacific walked away in 1974 and…

Depicts a mêlée of combatants using engraving tools as weapons: Hogarth with his dog is the only combatant with a palette instead of a copper-plate for a shield, and paint-brushes in his quiver. His opponent, Antoine Masson (1636-1700), defends…

First issued in monthly installments in Bentley’s Miscellany from February 1837 through April 1839, Oliver was a great success even though it had to compete with the Pickwick Papers for much of its serialization. Probably for the first time in his…