American Book Clubs: Their Beginnings and History, and a Bibliography of Their Publications |
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50 copies American Anne Bradstreet Anthology Club Bibliography book club Bookbindings Boston Boston Athenæum Bradford Club Bradstreet Brooklyn Catalogue Caxton Club Charles Charles Whittingham club copies Club of Odd club's contains copies on large copies on vellum Dunlap Society Durrett Duyckinck early editor Edmund England English engraved entitled Etchings Exhibition facsimile Ferdinando Gorges Filson Club Francis Franklin George Gorges Grolier Club Hamilton hand-made paper Henry Henry Laurens Historical Printing Club illustrations ington introduction issued James John John Dunton John Filson Joseph Kentucky large paper Letters Library literary LL.D London Louisville Magazine manuscripts MDCCCXCV Memoir minimo Moreau New-York notes octavo Officers original Parkman Club Paul Leicester Ford Philadelphia Philobiblon plates poem Portrait Press Prince Society printer Privately Printed publication published reprint Robert Roger Rowfant Rowfant Club Samuel Silas Deane subscribers Thomas tion titlepage vellum Voyage Washington Whittingham William
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Page 197 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 217 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 143 - A poetical epistle to His excellency George Washington, Esq. commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America, from an inhabitant of the state of Maryland.
Page 242 - CATALOGUE OF BOOKS from the Libraries or Collections of Celebrated Bibliophiles and Illustrious Persons of the Past, with Arms or Devices upon the Bindings.
Page 18 - ... may be considered as a true revival of polite learning in this country after that decay and neglect which resulted from the distractions of the Revolutionary War, and as forming an epoch in the intellectual history of the United States.
Page 268 - John Filson, the first historian of Kentucky: An account of his life and writings, principally from original sources. Prepared for The Filson Club and read at its meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, June 26, 1884, by Reuben T. Durrett, AM, LL.D., President of the Club.
Page 238 - Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Page 257 - An Account of the Indian Nations inhabiting within the Limits of the Thirteen United States ; their Manners and Customs ; and Reflections on their Origin.
Page 8 - American Magazine, or a Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies. There were three numbers, dated January through March. The close rival was Benjamin Franklin's The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for All the British Plantations in America.
Page 188 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...