Word: folios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also displayed are examples of the artist's correspondence and the famous "elephant folio" edition of his book "Birds of America," published in 1827-38. The "elephant folio," sized three feet by two feet, is one of the largest books ever issued. Rated by many as the world's most beautiful ornithology, it contains hundreds of colored engravings of birds in their habitats, and is believed to be the first attempt to portray birds in natural poses...
...connection with the folio, the exhibit illustrates the famous controversy Audubon aroused as to whether rattlesnakes climb trees. The artist portrayed four meeking birds battling a rattlesnake for possession of the birds' nest and eggs. Immediately the picture was challenged as scientifically inaccurate. In a letter Audubon wrote his wife in 1831, "Know ye all men that Rattlesnake do clime trees...
...Danish prince I have yet seen. Back to Cambridge soon afterwards, with the lights of the Business School leering contemptuously across the river at the far dimmer eyes of the Houses on the other side. To bed to dream of sitting at "Hamlet" with Mr. Widener's first folio of Shakespere in my lap, keeping careful track of Mr. Gielgud's lines...
...book's size is 8 1-2" by 6 1-4" by 2 1-4". It is clearly printed on good paper with the Droeshout copperplate portrait of Shakespeare from the First Folio as frontispiece. The 37 known plays of Shakespeare are included, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen" by Shakespeare and Fletcher, and all of the sonnets and other poems...
...March 11, 1869 tall, stately, curly-haired Hamilton Fish at home in Manhattan received a laconic letter from President Grant saying: "I will have to make another selection of Cabinet officer from New York. I have thought it might not be unpleasant for you to accept the port folio of the State Dept." The week before the 61-year-old Fish had read the list of Grant's amateurish Cabinet selections with alarm, noting that one choice was plainly illegal, others were determined by the President's desire to aid his old friends from Galena...