Research Catalog

Title

Essays in honor of James Edward Walsh : on his sixty-fifth birthday.

Publication

• Cambridge : Goethe Institute of Boston and the Houghton Library, 1983.
• ©1983

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Walsh, James Edward, 1918-2004.
• Marsh, Susan
• Goethe-Institut Boston, publisher.
• Houghton Library, publisher.

Description

x, 259 pages : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Walsh, James Edward, 1918-2004
• Houghton Library
• Bibliography
• Literature > History and criticism
• Bibliographical literature
• Literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Bindings (Provenance)

Note

• "Design and typography by Susan Marsh, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Composed in Sabon types on the Mergenthaler Linotron 202; printed on Mohawk Superfine; Bound with Brillianta cloth and Dresden Ingres endpapers" -- colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 255-259).

Language (note)

• English or German.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Rare Books 21-713 bound in publisher's red cloth over boards; gray paper spine label; and another label tipped in at back.

Contents

James Edward Walsh, a tribute / William H. Bond -- Library history and the history of books - two fields of research for librarians / Paul Raabe -- Richard Beer-Hofmann, a Stammbuchblatt and the Schlaflied / Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens -- The Melk Modus scribendi / Philip Hofer -- Provenance and date of the Houghton Chessbook manuscript and its miniatures / Eckehard Simon -- Goethe and Mozart: the abduction in Weimar / Robert Spaethling -- The golden shoes of Frau von Spiegel: an incident from Goethe's last years / Rodney G. Dennis -- Fontane's craft of fiction: art or artifice? / Karl S. Guthke -- Richard Beer-Hofmann's translation of Shakespeare's Richard II / Eugene Weber -- Fifteen letters by Richard Beer-Hofmann / Walter Grossman -- The presence of Vergil in the Maroclini Dante of 1544 / Ruth Mortimer -- A Venetian Tavola di Cebete / Eleanor M. Garvey -- Geofroy Tory's borders "a la Moderne" and their later fortunes in Portugal / Anne Anninger -- Richard Ames (d. 1692): a catalogue / Hugh Amory -- The transatlantic printing history of Joseph Priestley's discourses relating to the evidences of revealed religion, 1794-99 / John Lancaster -- United States dramatic copyrights, 1790-1830: a provisional catalogue / Roger E. Stoddard.

Call Number

Rare Books 21-713

LCCN

83126261

OCLC

9289602

Title

Essays in honor of James Edward Walsh : on his sixty-fifth birthday.

Publisher

Cambridge : Goethe Institute of Boston and the Houghton Library, 1983.

Copyright Date

©1983

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 255-259).

Language

English or German.

Binding

Copy in Rare Books 21-713 bound in publisher's red cloth over boards; gray paper spine label; and another label tipped in at back. NN

Added Author

Walsh, James Edward, 1918-2004.

Marsh, Susan, designer.

Goethe-Institut Boston, publisher.

Houghton Library, publisher.

Other Form:

Online version: Essays in honor of James Edward Walsh. Cambridge : Goethe Institute of Boston and the Houghton Library, 1983 (OCoLC)609472619

Research Call Number

Rare Books 21-713