Word: folios
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are many original editions and manuscripts in the collection, among which are Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1632, a letter from Dickens to Thackeray and the latter's reply, Robert Louis Stevenson's autobiography in handwriting, and manuscripts of Robert Burns, Illuminated books of the fifteenth century, and the first edition of the Decameron novels of Boccaccio are also a part of the collection...
...Theatre Collection in the College Library has lately received by gift a collection of 102 original water-color drawings of famous actors and actresses, nearly all full length, mounted in three volumes folio. All but a few of the drawings are by Samuel De Wilde, an English portrait painter...
These miniatures represent work of the fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The collection, mounted in one folio volume, was acquired at the memorable Hoe Sale of Books. The miniatures are now to be removed from the folio volume and separately mounted and framed for exhibition purposes...
About 1800 old-style type was abandoned in England, owing to the influence of an Italian topographer, Bodoni. Bodoni has two books in the Williamson collection, a large folio volume and a small volume. The date of the former is 1791 and of the latter 1793. Ordinary text-type of today is patterned after Bodoni's original designs...
...Geological Conference. "The Making of a Geological Folio," by Dr. L. La Forge--"Eastern Excursions of the International Geological Congress," by Professor Raymond and Messrs. Wigglesworth and Powers in Mineralogical Lecture Room of University Museum...