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Rarer, though a shade less precious than the Tikytt psalter, were the Blickling Homilies, only Anglo-Saxon manuscript in the U. S., a volume of 149 vellum pages written by two scribes about 971. For it Barnet J. Beyer, Manhattan bookdealer, paid $55,000. For $45,000 he also got what was described as "the most important early illustrated book ever sold at auction"-Boccaccio's De La Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes. Translated by Pierre Faivre, it was the first dated book (1476) with copperplate illustrations. Disposal of the Boccaccio was complicated by the competition...
...York Republican Nominee for Governor, to find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said he was indigent, it was his first "job," pleaded for mercy. After two hours Mr. Prentiss, well satisfied with his "experiment...
...addition to 60 regular copies, William J. Marsh Jr. printed a special one on vellum to carry to the White House and present personally to his subject. The President will find in it not only a record of his own career but also many views, comments and digressions by the author, also photographs of the author holding his country's flag. A moralist, Biographer Marsh is no less interested in Prohibition, Public Schools and the art of growing rich than he is in Herbert Hoover...
...Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persocutions and terrible troubles, that have been wrought and practised by the Romishe Prelates, speciallye in this Realme of England and Scotlande, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousande, unto the tyme nowe present." It has the original stamped vellum binding...
...particular interest to students of Italian painting is the antiphonary, the bequest of W. V. R. Berry '81. It is a sumptuous book of 346 vellum pages, each covered with liturgical text and musical notations. At the beginning of each phrase is traced a large initial, within which are illuminations by Lippo Vanni, active between...