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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.
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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.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1975
Recent acquisitions: Department of Manuscripts: acquisitions, January-December 1975.British Library
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The Cuttack Mission Press and Early Oriya printing
REFERENCES to early printing in the distinctive script of Oriya, the Indo-Aryan vernacular of Orissa, the region of India to the south-west of Bengal, are very scarce indeed.The attention of scholars has naturally enough tended to focus upon Bengal in the context of early printing in northern India, especially in...Shaw, Graham W.
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Letters of Robert Briffault
ROBERT BRIFFAULT (1873-1948) was a prolific and influential writer in the years between the two world wars. He achieved international fame as a novelist, with the publication of Europa in 1935. It was a first novel, portraying the decadence of western European society. In its sequel, Europa in Limbo (1937),...Searle, Arthur
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Deterioration in leather bookbindings - our present state of knowledge
DETERIORATION in leather and the mechanism by which deterioration proceeds has been a subject for investigation by the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association over a number of years. Leather is widely used, not only for clothing, upholstery, and bookbinding, but in industry for machinery drive belts, hydraulic seals, etc. and...Haines, Betty M.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division.Swiderska, H.
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The paved court theatre at Somerset House
B.L. LANSDOWNE MS. 1171 is a collection of careful drawings of early English stages equipped with various kinds of scenery. All but one have been identified, however tentatively, and among them are what have hitherto been accepted as the earliest detailed designs for an English scenic stage - that erected...Orrell, John
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Foreign bookbindings added to the department of printed books from 1963 to 1974
IN volume 1, number 2 of The British Library Journal I discussed some of the English bindings acquired by the Department of Printed Books since 1962. This article followed others on acquisitions from 1941 to 1950, from 1952 to 1962, and in 1962, which appeared respectively in the British Museum...Nixon, Howard M.
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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.
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The Codex Sinaiticus
THE Codex Sinaiticus of the Greek Bible, even though it has lost over 300 leaves, is still the earliest complete New Testament, and is the earliest and best witness for some of the books of the Old Testament. It was written in the first half of the fourth century, when...Pattie, T. S.
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Italian City and regional statutes 1473-1600, in the British Library
WITH the purchase in September 1974 of the printed statutes of Bologna, a book which was completed shortly after 28 February 1475, the British Library increases its holdings of the products of the first press in Bologna, that of Baldassare Azzoguidi, from fourteen to fifteen out of a total of...Rhodes, Dennis E.
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Brother and sister: new George Eliot letters
ON 20 July 1854 Mary Ann Evans, who two and a half years later was to assume the nom de plume George Eliot, left London for an excursion to Germany in the company of George Henry Lewes, and henceforward until his death they lived together as man and wife. She...Burnett, T. A. J.
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Additional Sheridan papers: Add.MSS. 58274-58277
A QUANTITY of political papers, mostly speech notes, and miscellanea of Richard Brinsley Sheridan have recently been added to the Department of Manuscripts' holdings of Sheridan family material. The new acquisition had once been part of the Sheridan papers preserved at Frampton Court, Dorset, and had been sold by auction...Smith, R. A. H.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1965-1975: English books 1501-1640
The custom of providing each year a brief descriptive survey of some of the more interesting and important books acquired by the Department of Printed Books, has been discontinued for a number of years. The ensuing article marks its revival by listing in all a little over one hundred items...Jannetta, M. J.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: English books 1501-1640 concluded
Recent acquisitions: Department of Printed Books: English books 1501-1640 concludedJannetta, M. J.
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An unrecorded German periodical from the time of the Napoleonic Wars: Beyträge zur Geschichte des Krieges der Jahre 1812 und 1813
GERMAN resistance to Napoleon, fostered by exiles such as Clausewitz and Stein in St. Petersburg as well as by local patriots, burst into renewed life at the retreat from Moscow and gathered strength throughout the year or so of struggle which followed, called in German the Freiheitskriege, wars of liberation...Paisey, David
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The Awag Vank ͤ Armenian Gospels A.D. 1200
IN 1975 the British Library acquired the Awag Vank ͤ Armenian Gospels formerly belonging to the Collection of the late Mr. Hagop Kevorkian of New York, a work of both artistic and historical interest.This illuminated manuscript, now Or. 13654, comprises the Four Gospels in Classical Armenian, with the Letter of...Dowsett, C. J. F.
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Learning to read: Friedrich Gedike's primer of 1791
IN a culture still as firmly based as ours on written language, it is hardly possible to overestimate the importance to the individual and to society of the skill of reading. It gives a degree of power, through access to recorded information, from the simple signals of everyday life to...Paisey, David
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Patrick Cary: a sequel
To place the recently acquired manuscript of Italian poems attributed to Patrick Cary more exactly in context and to dispel any doubts concerning his authorship I should like to bring together some scattered information. I should also like to discuss further sources regarding the last few years of his life.Willetts, Pamela