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BIOGRAPHIA DRAMATICA; OR, A COMPANION TO THE PLAYHOUSE: CONTAINING

BIOGRAPHIA DRAMATICA; OR, A COMPANION TO THE PLAYHOUSE: CONTAINING by BAKER, David Erskine

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BIOGRAPHIA DRAMATICA; OR, A COMPANION TO THE PLAYHOUSE: CONTAINING
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BAKER, David Erskine
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
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BAKER, David Erskine. BIOGRAPHIA DRAMATICA; OR, A COMPANION TO THE PLAYHOUSE CONTAINING HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL MEMOIRS, AND ORIGINAL ANECDOTES, OF BRITIS AND IRISH DRAMATIC WRITERS, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF OUR THEATRICAL EXHIBITIO AMONGST WHOM ARE SOME OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ACTORS. Two Volumes. London: Printed for Messrs. Rivingtons, 1782. 8vo. Early nineteenth century diced calf. (ii), v-lii, 496 pages; (ii), 442 pages. New edition, and continu from 1764 to 1782 Edited by Isaac Reed, and his first important work. The Biographia Dramatica set of biographies and dramatists and a descriptive dictionary of their plays was an enlargement of David Erskine Baker's Companion to the Playhouse (2 volumes, 1764). "Also an alphabetical account of their works, the dates when printed, and occasional observations on their merits. Together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage." The origin work by Baker had been based on Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets, (1691); Giles Jacob's Poetical Register, (1719); Thomas Whincop's List of all the Dramatic Authors, printed with his Tragedy of Scanderberg, (1747); and the manuscript of Thomas Coxeter, (1689-1747). Armor bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort. Slight wear but an attractive set. 39819.
Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories

Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)

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Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories
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Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)
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John Howell for Books (United States)
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BOSTON BRAHMIN REACTS TO 1848. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. [viii], 158 pp. Text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, shelf wear, corners showing, spine ends chipped. Ownership rubber stamp of Eugene Bechtold, Los Angeles, CA on the tail of the rear pastedown. Autograph note, signed from Norton to "My Dear Mr. Dwight." DB722-006. Good. FIRST EDITION. This is Charles Eliot Norton's first book, published anonymously. With an AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED by Charles Eliot Norton. Norton graduated from Harvard in 1846, and started in business with an East Indian trading firm in Boston, traveling to India in 1849, when he was twenty-two years old. The return trip took the young Mr. Norton through Italy, Paris, and London before returning to Boston. While in London, Norton closely followed "English discussions of the social question, collecting official reports on schooling and attending a Commons debate on the subject." Turner, The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton, p. 49. Norton chose as his antagonists for this work Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc (1811-1882), and Louis Kossuth (1802-1894) as representative of the dangerous theories of social amelioration being debated after the Revolutions of 1848. Norton found little distinction between the social theories of these activists and either tyranny or "red republicanism." Rather, Norton's hope lie in "The trust committed to the hands of the intelligent and the prosperous classes here is the future of their country." p. 158. With this exceptional diversion into political philosophy, Norton's life after his return to Boston in 1851 was dedicated to literature and art. From 1855 to 1874, Norton travelled widely in Europe and England. Rudyard Kipling visited Norton in Boston and noted that Charles Eliot Norton's daughters were "Brahmins of the Boston Brahmins, living delightfully, but Norton himself, full of forebodings as to the future of his land's future, felt the established earth sliding under him, as horses feel coming earth-tremors." See Wikipedia. The autograph note attached to the front free end-paper of this copy reads: "My Dear Mr. Dwight. Thanks for your note. Such a notice as you propose to write is just what I want and it will be in season if it reaches me by Tuesday or Wednesday next. Sincerely Yours, Charles E. Norton." PROVENANCE: Eugene Bechtold may have been affiliated with the Communist Party of the United States involved with worker's education. However, James Farr in his article "Educating Communists: Eugene Bechtold and the Chicago Workers School notes "No mention of Bechtold is to be found in any of the major scholarly works on American Communist politics (nor was he familiar to the many historians of communism or of Chicago politics with whom I have been in contact.)" In: American Communist History (found on researcher-app dot com. Makes sense that a Marxist would want to get a handle on the patriarchal attitudes of Boston's Brahmin class. Worldcat: records many, many copies in a large variety of formats.
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THE LIBER USUALIS, with intro. & rubrics in English by Benedictines of Solesmes, ed.

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THE LIBER USUALIS, with intro. & rubrics in English
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Benedictines of Solesmes, ed.
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
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New York: Desclee, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good +. Well illus. with musical examples. Thick 8vo.
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San Francesco Assisi, Upper Church. (print)

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San Francesco Assisi, Upper Church. (print)
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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Very good condition
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London: Henry Bohn, 1843. Very good condition. Original tinted lithograph of this thirteenth century church from Henry Gally Knight's The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century published in 1843 by Henry Bohn in London. Image size is 15 3/4x 11 1/2 inches. Sheet size is 21 1/2 x 14 1//2 inches. Drawn by Domenico Quaglio II (German, Munich 1787 - 1837 Hohenschwangau, near Fussen) and printed by G. Moore. Dampstain in lower left corner easily matted out.
Press Photography; Minnesota since 1930

Press Photography; Minnesota since 1930

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Press Photography; Minnesota since 1930
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1977. 1st. Paperback. Very good. Bound in the publisher's orignial illustrated wraps for an exhibition organized by Walker Art Center 11 December 1977 - 22 January 1978.
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Reports of Explorations and Surveys...From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (Vol 12, Book 2)

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Reports of Explorations and Surveys...From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (Vol 12, Book 2)
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Government Printing Office, 1860. Fair. Reports of Explorations and Surveys...From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (Vol 12, Book 2). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1860. 76, 399pp. Illustrated. 4to. Marbled paper over boards. Book condition: Fair with rubbed and bumped edges. Paper peeling on front board and corners bumped inwards. Front hinge and joint cracked but holding at top portion. Pages yellowed. Former owner's bookplate on front endsheet.
A Discourse, on the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered Oct. 31, 1852, by Edward A. Lawrence, Pastor of the First Church, Marblehead

A Discourse, on the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered Oct. 31, 1852, by Edward A. Lawrence, Pastor of the First Church, Marblehead by Lawrence, Edward A.

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A Discourse, on the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered Oct. 31, 1852, by Edward A. Lawrence, Pastor of the First Church, Marblehead
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Lawrence, Edward A.
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Institutional stamp to title and first page, sticker shadow on title page, faint browning at the edges, otherwise a very good cr
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Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin, 1852. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Institutional stamp to title and first page, sticker shadow on title page, faint browning at the edges, otherwise a very good crisp clean copy.. 29 pp. 8vo. A short biography of Webster. Lawrence wrote with his mother, Margaret Woods Lawrence, the anti-Tobacco tract "The Tobacco Problem," under her pen name, Meta Lander. Sabin 39348.
TAMARIND: HOMAGE TO LITHOGRAPHY

TAMARIND: HOMAGE TO LITHOGRAPHY

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TAMARIND: HOMAGE TO LITHOGRAPHY
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New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1969. cloth, dust jacket. Lithography. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 64 pages. First edition, the cloth bound version. Preface by William S. Lieberman and introduction by Virginia Allen. Filled with illustrations in color. Jacket soiled.
The Magnificent Rockies, Crest of a Continent
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The Magnificent Rockies, Crest of a Continent

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The Magnificent Rockies, Crest of a Continent
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Palo Alto: American West Publishing Co, 1973. Edited by the editors of American West. 285 [2]p., colored and b/w illus., slightly chipped dj, quarto format (The great West series).

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