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...followed him up another staircase to a second studio. . . . 'You might like to see these,' he said, bringing [out] a folio of drawings. . . . All variations on the same theme: a young man asleep whom a girl is intently watching...
...estimated that the Library of Congress collection, in 236 folio volumes, totals about 65,000 pages. When completed, the microfilm copy will comprise about 80 reels, of 100 feet each. Widener is paying...
Last week the real Leonardo, in all his masterly diversity, was better represented at popular prices than he ever has been before. Phaidon Press, formerly of Vienna and now of London, published a crown-folio-size book, Leonardo da Vinci, which was first-page art news for its broad inclusiveness, handsome reproduction, excellent taste and $4.50 pricing.* Included with the book's full gallery of Leonardo's paintings, drawings, mechanical designs and sculpture was a short foreword by compiler Ludwig Goldscheider and a reprinting of Vasari's classic 16th-Century life of the artist...
...Body Is Found. The Fabric of the Human Body is best seen today in a magnificent reprint made in Munich (Bremer Presse) in 1934, sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine. This enormous folio (height 22 in., weight 20 lb., price $95 a copy) was made possible by the discovery in Munich in 1932 of almost all the original Calcar-attributed woodblocks. More than 200 turned up, in perfect condition. Bremer Presse craftsmen made restrikes of the blocks, on dampened rag paper, with such exquisite care that the results are far more legible than in the first great 16th...
...uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most men required a night for, Perelman spent the balance dictating novels (Jo Bracegirdle's Ordeal, The Splendid Sinners), essays (Winnowings, The Anatomy of Gluttony, Turns with a Stomach), plays (Are You There, Wimperis?, Musclebound, Philippa Steps...