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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most interesting of these books is a first edition of Milton's minor poems. Before the title page there is engraving of the author done by W. Marshall, Milton, evidently disliking the picture wrote a Greek comment under the picture, which Marshall, ignorant of Greek and believing the comment to be complimentary, caused to be engraved on the plate. Milton's comment, translated, follows...
Otto Hermann Kahn, Manhattan financier-art-patron: "Word came-from London that I had chartered the Duke of Westminster's yacht, Flying Cloud, a sailing ship with auxiliary engines, for a cruise from Sicily in April, to Athens, the Greek islands and Venice, with guests: Novelists (Enoch) Arnold Bennett and David Gray, Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair and Artist Paul Dougherty...
...Doubt surrounds the authorship of the book ECCLESIASTES. Some say King Solomon wrote it. Others attribute it to a Hebrew sage named Koholeth, whose name, coincidentally, means "wisdom." Koholeth at first puts his words into the mouth of Solomon, but later drops this literary device. The Greek word "Ecclesiastes" means "Preacher...
There are several other exhibits also on show at Widener, rare tomes to delight the bibliophile, leaves from ancient Greek manuscripts and old Latin Grammars...