Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who are interested in rare old books and early editions will find a great deal of pleasure in examining the exhibit in the Treasure Room of Widener Library this week. The books laid out there include complete facsimiles of the first four folio editions of Shakespeare's plays, dated 1623, 1632, 1664, and 1685, as well as specimens of a still earlier edition of the quarto plays...
...hall is a bronze bust of the Marquis of Pescara, wearing the Golden Fleece, ascribed to Benvenuto Cellini. In the rooms, which will form the happy hunt-ing-ground of bibliophiles living and bibliophiles yet to be born, are some of the choicest books in existence, ranging from the rare incunabula (books printed before 1500) to autograph copies of books by famous authors and statesmen. Mr. Morgan's collection of Coptic manuscripts is said to be the finest in existence. To do justice to the wonders of this book paradise would take more than a volume; to attempt to catalog...
...specialist efficiency and general ability. It includes Robert H. Rock well, of the Brooklyn Institute Museum, taxidermist, who will mount groups of the island wild life; W. Kenneth Cuyler and Allen L. Moses, collectors, who will prepare the skins. Mr. Simmons himself will devote much time to the many rare and tropical birds - the sheerwater, gannet, booby, king and emperor penguins, jackass, manofwar, albatross, etc. Experienced navigators and sailors, all college men with scientific training, make up the crew. There is an engineer for topo graphical work, an electrician for ra dio, a photographer, a motion picture...
...James McNeil Whistler, or a Parisian if he is familiar with the works of Emile Zola. If there breathes a man who has been at Harvard for two years and still does not know of the hermit of Hollis Hall, he should be highly prized, for he is a rare growth. And yet it is difficult to describe Professor Copeland to newcomers; all that can be said is that he is a Harvard institution. To be appreciated he must be seen, and above all heard, at one of his inimitable readings, of which the etiquette, moreover, is as rigid...
...Xanadu" one reads, "did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" and lo! immediately "it was a miracle of rare device...