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Provenance: Stanislaus Joyce, with a presentation inscription by his brother, James.

James Joyce didn’t appear in the original 1916 edition of Ernest Boyd’s classic survey—a virtual ‘Top 100” of the Irish literary revival. In this 1922 “New…

On a freezing night in Cambridge, Massachusetts in December 1958, at around 2:00 a.m., I was walking back to my room in Adams House after a feast of delicious scrambled eggs with a buttery, well-toasted English muffin at the Hayes-Bickford, on…

Designer binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin (1954). Illustration by Francis Picabia. The fair page, like good food, is nourishing:we wish to linger and graze upon it … the complete book lover knows there can be …the sheer enjoyment of its flavor. David…

As a scholar specializing in the late medieval and early Renaissance period, I collect first editions of sixteenth-century French and Latin literary works. The book on view is a rare copy of the first complete edition of Marguerite, sister of French…

John Hanbury Angus Sparrow (1906–92), literary scholar, book collector, lawyer, warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and conservative polemicist, was my friend and the author of Association Copies, the first of three books I published. Printed by…

Provenance: Signed by Billon and with the gilt arms of the Baron de Seillière.

One of the principal theorists of feminism in the sixteenth century, François de Billon served as secretary to Cardinal Jean du Bellay. Billon wrote this ambitious…

Binding, striped cloth, 19th c. One of the rarest items in my collection of American nineteenth-century cloth bindings is this exemplar that combines both stripes and dots. Striped cloth, all of which was imported from England, was the most uncommon…

This diary, kept by my great-great-great-grandfather, details many specifics of the hemp factory he was building, his religious thoughts and activities, and the ever-important weather, but it is disappointingly silent about his feelings about being…

In this translation of Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works, published during the French Revolution, his letter dated February 18, 1793, was changed:

The struggle is at length over, and poor de Severy [Salomon de Severy, a close friend in Lausanne] is no…

In his bibliography of Robert Hooke’s work, Sir Geoffrey Keynes ranked the Micrographia of Robert Hooke “among the most important books ever published in the history of science” (Oxford, 1960, xi), and it has been described as enjoying “immediate…