Word: folios
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These memorials include, beside other interesting objects, the Hebrew Bible used by President Dunster throughout his administration; a book given to President Chauncy when, as a boy in 1609, he went up from Westminster School to Trinity College; a folio Hebrew and Greek Bible which belonged to Increase Mather, and several of his works printed while he was President of Harvard College; Vice-President Willard's Commonplace Book; Leverett's private note-book of College affairs; and the book of signatures presented to President Eliot on his seventieth birthday and the orders conferred by foreign governments on President Eliot...
...poet's hand. Of the works in print, the rarest is perhaps a copy of the "Obsequies of John Kean," in which Milton's Lycidas first appeared. There is also a copy of the first printed collection of his poems, dated 1645. A copy of the second folio edition of Shakspere's works, which contains Milton's earliest printed work now extant, his lines on Shakspere has been loaned for the exhibit. The controversial tracts are represented by about 30 volumes. "Paradise Lost" is shown in a large number of editions beginning with two states of the first published...
...Lewis, of the Class of 1819, M.D. 1822. Dr. Lewis was a well-known physician of Boston, and a member of the Board of Overseers from 1856 to 1868. The collection is a general one, but contains many works on Italian history and travels, including a number of valuable folio volumes of engraved plates. There are also many works on numismatics, and others of interest in English and French literature. Mr. Ernest L. Gay at the same time added to the gift a number of volumes from his own library, consisting of books relating to Napoleon and of English poetical...
...Library has just received as a gift from Mrs. Paine the manuscript copy of the score on which the late Professor J.K. Paine h.'69 was at work at the time of his death. It is entitled "Lincoln, a Tragic Tone Poem," and consists of twenty-six folio pages of music. Professor Paine had in mind for many years this work, which he hoped would be his greatest achievement...
Through the generosity of Mr. E. B. Dane '92, of Boston, the Library has also recently been enabled to make many notable additions to its collections of English literature. A few of the more important of these books are: A folio of Chaucer's Works, printed for Robert Toy about...