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  • 1977
    Journal article

    Two sixteenth-century Italian devices

    THE two devices here discussed have nothing in common except that they are both Italian of the sixteenth century, occur in books in the British Library, and have not been satisfactorily explained or identified hitherto. Much work remains to be done on Italian printers' and publishers' devices, and indeed there...
    Rhodes, Dennis E.
  • 1976
    Journal article

    Caxton in the British Library

    IN 1877 the four hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the first printing press in England was celebrated with, among other things, a staggering exhibition in the National Art Library, South Kensington (now the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Inspired by William Blades, a practical printer, whose biography...
    Nixon, Howard M.
  • 1976
    Journal article

    Correspondence from The Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St. Andrews

    Correspondence from The Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St. Andrews.
    Watson, J. Steven
  • 1977
    Journal article

    Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division

    Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division.
    Swiderska, H.
  • 1976
    Journal article

    Cowley and 'Orinda' autograph fair copies

    ABRAHAM COWLEY'S elegy 'On the Death of Mr. Crashaw' was his tribute to a fellow poet with whom he had exchanged verses at Cambridge and whom he had later befriended in exile at Paris where, according to Anthony Wood, he presented the destitute Crashaw to Henrietta Maria. The elegy has...
    Kelliher, Hilton
  • 1977
    Journal article

    Two Stanley Spencer letters from Salonika

    THE most memorable experience which twentieth-century British painting can provide is a visit to Stanley Spencer's masterpiece, the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, Hampshire. An inscription in the chapel explains that the paintings 'are the fulfilment of a design which he conceived whilst on active service' and these scenes of...
    Waley, D. P.
  • 1976
    Journal article

    The French Revolution collections in the British Library

    IN 1899 there was printed 'by order of the Trustees of the British Museum' a small edition of a modest guide entitled List of the contents of the three collections of books, pamphlets and journals in the British Museum relating to the French Revolution. Its compiler was G. K. Fortescue,...
    Brodhurst, Audrey C.
  • 1976
    Journal article

    Illustrated German broadsides of the seventeenth century

    THE seventeenth century was the great age of the illustrated broadside in Germany, where its suitability as an instrument of propaganda was exploited to the full. Engravings, varying in quality from crude to excellent, with images sometimes simple and direct, sometimes of the complex symbolism which is a Baroque commonplace,...
    Paisey, D. L.
  • 1977
    Journal article

    The British bindings in the Henry Davis gift

    WHEN Henry Davis, C.B.E. died on 10 January 1977 the majority of his magnificent collection of bookbindings joined those already on exhibition in the British Library. The Gift, which comprises approximately 800 decorated bookbindings and 260 reference books is too extensive and too varied to receive proper justice in a...
    Foot, Mirjam M.
  • 1976
    Journal article

    The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa, Japan: 2. certain features of the Collection

    IN December 1867, fourteen months after the death of Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold, his eldest son Alexander approached the British Museum about the sale of an extensive range of Japanese materials which his father had acquired during the extraordinary career described in the previous article. Negotiations went on for...
    Brown, Yu-Ying