Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
These two leaves were obtained by soaking apart the bindings of an old book. This pasteboard binding had been made by glueing together odd pages, two of which were the rare old leaves now on exhibition. The leaves were used for binding because they contained errors, as was discovered by comparing them with corresponding pages of Latin editions of the same text-book for which they were intended...
...Rare Byron Shown...
...Another rare book in the cases is the fifth edition of "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" by Byron. This edition is extremely uncommon because he caused it to be suppressed for personal reasons, shortly after it was put upon the presses...
Since the death twenty one years ago of John Lovett, "The Orange Man," whose greeting to Freshmen, "I knew your father, friend," and whose translation of Veritas as "Ter hell wid Yale," have made him immortal, Harvard has never had another mascot of such rare interest and popularity...