Map showing major roads in the St. Louis metropolitan area before the appearance of Washington Park and other cemeteries along Natural Bridge. Courtesy of Missouri History Museum.
Bound by Gerard Charriere (binder's stamp) in full purple Oasis leather with multicolored onlays, palladium, blind and iridescent colored foil tooling; headbands sewn in red and green; gauffered top edges; hand-decorated endpapers; in a purple and…
This is the bookstamp of Joseph Chasanowich (also Chazanowicz) (1844-1919), a Russian physician and founder of the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem. As a physician, Chasanowich was dedicated to helping the poor, and would accept books as payments…
Specimens of pages 49-50 and 63-64 of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
Includes Gill's engravings: Naked girl looking back (P424), page 49; Cupid, bow on tree (P446), page 50; Harpy facing left (P452), page 63;…
"The text follows ... [the Oxford University Press] edition by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat"--Colophon, v. 4.
"This edition ... was printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press ... Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C.…