Word: autographing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is now on exhibition in the Widener Room of the Widener Memorial Library a notable collection, of interest to book-lovers, of first editions and autograph manuscripts and letters of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. In the Dickens case are a second issue of the first edition of "Oliver Twist," illustrated by George Cruikshank, a presentation copy of "Pickwick Papers"; original drawings by the author and by Cruikshank for "Oliver Twist," and a contract with Dickens' publishers, Chapman and Hall...
...most valuable of the time, to the University. Among the most interesting of the books on view are a number of books of association with the great statesman, works formerly owned by personages famous in history, illuminated manuscripts of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, and a collection of autograph books. Included in the books owned by great men of the past, all with the autograph of the owner, are John Bunyan's Bible, Racine's New Testament, and books of Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis XIV, and the Marquise de Pompadour...
...Byron. Two very rare and much sought after books in the show-cases are Coleridge's "The Watchman" and "The Friend," little magazines which are interesting to compare with our modern journals. A first edition of the "State man's Manual," with numerous corrections and notes in Coleridge's autograph, is one of the prizes of the collection. Beside these rare editions are various manuscripts, a number of portraits, and letters...
...manuscript, "The Stone-pine of Monte Mario at Rome"; and a "Prelude," which-belonged to Lock-hart, the biographer of Scott. The prize book of the collection is, however, "An Account of the Books Lent out of the Library at Rydale Mount" in the original sheep, in the autograph of William Wordsworth and of Dorothy Wordsworth. In this account are entered the names of de Quincey, Dr. Arnold, and others, as having borrowed books...
...better known to the public as a poet than an artist because poems can be reprinted, but adequate reproductions of his paintings have never yet been made. An opportunity is given by this exhibition to see Blake's works in their originals, and including books, engravings, drawings and autograph letters...