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Written by the thirteenth-century Welsh Franciscan John of Wales, the work from which this leaf comes was meant to provide priests with basic information on how to lead a good life. Thus in sermons and conversation, they could instruct individuals…

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I find tiny fragments of medieval manuscripts irresistible, often the smaller the better, and I have well over 600 of them, covering a huge range of texts. This is part of a small group of ancient parchment scraps that I bought in London in 2001. The…

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This is, most probably, the oldest manuscript fragment of the New Testament in private hands. It was found in Egypt in the late nineteenth century, and is in a semi-uncial hand. The text, from the Gospel of John in the original Greek, tells the…

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Red Channels is an imperfect guide to the supposed political leanings of those in American radio and television suspected by self-anointed “patriots” of being less than one hundred percent “loyal” to the United States. These patriots began their…

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Provenance: Julian and Grace Boyd, with an inscription by the author. I am interested in the history of American book collecting and especially in the movement of books and manuscripts in the last century from private collections into public…

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Terracotta patinated plaster bust, 30 x 24 in.

Provenance: Lord Coleridge [John Duke Coleridge].

Lord Coleridge was Matthew Arnold’s “most loyal [and] enduring of any of his friends” (Honan). He unveiled another bust of Arnold, by Bruce Joy, in…

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Designer binding by George Kirkpatrick. Edition of 125. This copy of The Tempest is housed in an extraordinary commission binding by my good friend George Kirkpatrick. But it is the story of how the binding came to be that makes it most special for…

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Illustrations by Wyndham Lewis. Printed on Johannot by d’Arches paper in Della Robbia type using a Vandercook Universal III press; illustrations printed on archival art paper. No. 21/100.

I collect early twentieth-century modernist poetry,…

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Issued in numerous bindings and at various price points, Portraits and Principles was sold door to door by book agents. Binding variants aside, collation of multiple copies reveals a range of other differences in text and illustration. Some were sold…

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No. 6 of 425 copies. With a separate portfolio of plates consisting of family portraits by Yeats’s father and a scene of Sligo (in Ireland) by his brother.

Provenance: Inscribed “Mabel Wright from W B Yeats, Jan 14, 1916.”

Reveries was W. B.…

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