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Others on display include the "Royal Book," printed by William Caxton, the first English printer: the first English edition of "King Arthur and the Round Table," printed in 1557: and the Countess of Pembroke's own copy of Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia." Original manuscripts of Burns, Dickens, Lamb, and Stevenson, complete the collection...
...book-designing is a recent development in printing. The first Eng- lish printed books by Caxton had for type the Flemish script which was perhaps the ugliest of all forms of writing. This evil influence dominates the whole of English printing for the greater part of the nineteenth century, and is not yet extinct...
...election was exciting. The result was in doubt until the last moment. Churchill swept the district with automobiles to carry lazy voters to the polls. He seemed to be leading. A crowd of 20,000 gathered in front of Caxton Hall, where the count was in progress, and the Laborites sang The Red Flag and The Internationale. At 12:30 that night newspapers got out editions stating that Churchill...
Other treasures are: Oliver Cromwell's prayer-book, which is kept in a small silver box with silver filigree on a gold back. The only existing perfect copy of the first book printed in English (William Caxton's press...
Several of the books are bound copies of the American Chess Bulletin which Mr. Wainwright won in problem tourneys. One of the books is a very rare edition of a treatise by Jacopo da Cessole and was printed in 1532. This is the work which Caxton translated and printed as "The Game and Playe of the Chesse"--the second book printed in England. There is also a learned work in Latin and Hebrew by Thomas Hyde, professor of Oriental languages at Oxford at the close of the seventeenth century. The Widener copy of this "Shahiludium" is of the extremely rare...