Research Catalog

Title

Bibliographical essays : a tribute to Wilberforce Eames.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1924.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.

Description

xix p., 1., 440 p. facsims., tables, fronts, port.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937
• Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937
• Bibliography
• Bibliographies as Topic
• bibliographies
• Boekwetenschap

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies.
• Bibliography.
• Festschriften.
• Essays.

Note

• Title-page and vignette designed by Bruce Rogers.
• Book-plate: "From the printing collection of Elmer Adler."
• Contains an autograph note in pencil signed "JTW [presumably John T. Winterich] Dec. 7, 1937" on the front free endpaper.
• Oxford 271.
• Prospectus laid in.
• WHS copy is not a photocopy.

Bibliography (note)

• "Works and contributions": p. 23-26.

Provenance (note)

• WHS shelf-list has no date of acquisition or name of vendor.

Contents

Wilberforce Eames, a bio-bibliographical narrative, by V.H. Paltsits.-Aids to the identification of American imprints, by AliceH. Lerch.-The Royal primer, by P. Merritt, with check list of Royal primers.-The New England primer, by W.C. Ford.-Chez Moreaude St.-M_ery, Philadelphie, by H.W. Kent with publications ofMoreau de St.-M_ery. 1795-1797.-Quienes fueron los autores, hastaahora ignorados, de los libros ingleses que interesan a America, by J.T. Medina.-The literary fair in the United States, by C.L. Nichols.-The ballad of Lovewell's fight by G.L. Kittredge.-The first work with American types, by L.C. Wroth.-A Maryland tract of 1646, by L.C. Harper.-The surreptitious printing of one of Cotton Mather's manuscripts, by T.J. Holmes.-Elizabethan Americana, by G.W. Cole.-The Eliot Indian tracts, by G.P. Winship.-The New York printers and the celebration of the French revolution of 1830, by Ruth S. Granniss.-Wall-paper newspapers of the civil war; with checklist of issues, by C.S. Brigham.-Analytical methods in bibliography applied to Daniel Webster's speech at Worcester in 1832, by C.B. Clapp.-Mills Day's proposed Hebrew Bible, by O. Wegelin.-A translation of the Rosetta stone, by R.G. Adams.-Colonial American arithmetics, by L.C. Karpinski, with list of arithmetics published in America up to 1775.-Sixteenth-century Mexican imprints, by H.R. Wagner, with location table of Mexican sixteenth-century books.-The De Bry collector's painefullperegrination along the pleasant pathway to perfection, by H.N. Stevens.-A note on the laws of the republic of Vermont, by J.G. Wilbur, with list of Vermont laws, 1779-1791.-The promotion literature of Georgia, by V.W. Crane.-Books on architecture printedin America, 1775-1830. by A.J. Wall.-Isaac Eddy, printer-engraver, by H.G. Rugg, with bibliography of Eddy publications.-Thefirst California laws printed in English, by C.M. Cate.-Ann Franklin of Newport, printer, 1736-1763, by H.M. Chapin.-The workof Hartford's first printer, by A.C. Bates, with list of ThomasGreen's Hartford imprints, 1764-1768.-Writings of Rev. John Cotton, by J.H. Tuttle.-Some notes on the use of Hebrew type in non-Hebrew books, 1475-1520, by A. Marx.-The Fasciculus temporum, agenealogical survey of editions before 1480, by Margaret B. Stillwell.

LCCN

25002291

OCLC

• ocm02416859
• 2416859
• SCSB-329007

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library