Word: quarto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Original Quarto Plays Included...
These volumes are supplemented by a small but choice shelf-full of about 100 original quarto plays by Addison, Cibber, Congreve, Davenport, Dryden, Ford, Gay, Killigrew, Lee, Massinger, Minshull, Sedley, Sheridan, Steele, and other writers of lesser importance...
...ordinary customs officer, along with the tea and tobacco, rice and rugs, that daily pass his inspection. What is he to base the value on--selling price in this country, value to the dealer, or literary value for the ages? If he is to pass upon a Shakespeare quarto of the Seventeenth Century and a volume of Bishop Blougram's sermons of 1880, which will be tax the higher? The latter is a bigger book, in better condition; no doubt the Shakespeare collector will be satisfied; but what of the divinity student who needs Blougram for a thesis...
...leading American woman astronomer. She was graduated from Wellesley in 1884, and has been associated with the Harvard Observatory since 1897. During this time she has completed a monumental catalogue of the spectra of some 220,000 stars all over the heavens, which when published will occupy nine quarto volumes. No such comprehensive study has ever been made before. She has also discovered three new stars, and 150 variable stars, and has completed a bibliography of variable stars containing about 45,000 references...
...Quarto. Bound in white vellum cloth, gold stamped. Constable, Ltd., London. Published at $20.00. Special price...