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The Dutch Colonial House : Its Origin, Design, Modern Plan And Construction, Aymar Embury Ii, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1913

The Dutch Colonial House : Its Origin, Design, Modern Plan And Construction, Aymar Embury Ii, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

iv, 108 pages, [64] pages of plates : frontispiece, illus., plans. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. The country house library; a series of architectural books for the layman "Illustrated with photographs of old examples and American adaptations of the style" The genesis of the style -- Materials -- The treatment of the roof -- Doors and windows -- Plan -- The treatment of principal rooms -- Furniture and decoration. Decorated cloth cover binding illustrated with large vignette of a house, and a partial view of the lawn with two cypress …

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A Child's Book Of Old Verses, Jessie Willcox Smith Jan 1910

A Child's Book Of Old Verses, Jessie Willcox Smith

Illustration

ix, 124 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illus. (some color). Illustrated lining-papers. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wetherell. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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The Holy Land, Robert Hitchens, Jules Guerin, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1910

The Holy Land, Robert Hitchens, Jules Guerin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

x, 302 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title page within ornamental border, printed in black and brown, text page headers also printed in brown. Bound in green publisher's illustrated cloth binding with a stamped image in green, red, blue and gilt on the front cover, representing a view of Nazareth from an illustration by Jules Guerin. The spine has the title and author in gilt with a frame around the title. CONTENTS: Baalbec, the town of the sun -- The spell of …

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Royal Palaces And Parks Of France, Francis [Pseud.] Miltoun, Blanche Mcmanus, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1910

Royal Palaces And Parks Of France, Francis [Pseud.] Miltoun, Blanche Mcmanus, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

viii, 371 p., [41] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), plans. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Includes illustrated lining papers.

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Ethel Steven's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Ethel Steven Jan 1910

Ethel Steven's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Ethel Steven

Scrapbooks

Ethel Steven went to Belmont College for Young Women from 1910 to 1911. She received a certificate of second year completion from Belmont College’s School of Music.

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Italian Hours, Henery James, Joseph Pennell, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1909

Italian Hours, Henery James, Joseph Pennell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

ix, 504 pages, [32] color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected." -Preface.

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Ethel Warnock's Scrapbook 1909-1910, Ethel Warnock Jan 1909

Ethel Warnock's Scrapbook 1909-1910, Ethel Warnock

Scrapbooks

Ethel Warnock went to Belmont College for Young Women during the 1909-1910 school year. She created this scrapbook during her time there

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Frances Cox's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Frances Cox Jan 1909

Frances Cox's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Frances Cox

Scrapbooks

Frances Cox attended Belmont College for Young Women from 1909-1910.

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Helen Marx's Scrapbook 1908-1911, Helen Marx Jan 1908

Helen Marx's Scrapbook 1908-1911, Helen Marx

Scrapbooks

Helen Marx was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on May 13, 1894. She attended Belmont College for Young Women from 1908-1911 and received a special degree in English. After school, she returned to Lake Charles and eventually married Richard Joseph Zander on June 18, 1919. The couple moved to Pennsylvania where he worked as a partner in a men’s clothing manufacturing business and Helen was a homemaker. They had four children: Judith, Richard Jr., Julia, and Simone. Richard Zander Sr. died on December 17, 1954, and Helen passed on March 5, 1982.

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Flower Of The Dusk, Myrtle Reed, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1908

Flower Of The Dusk, Myrtle Reed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

iv, 341 pages : color frontispiece illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Decorated cloth binding signed by the designer: MA [Margaret Armstrong]. Lilac color cloth binding, lettering and illustration emboss in white and gold. Title page and text pages printed in black and red, all pages in frames. Top edge of text block gold gilt. Inside front cover, large bookplate of Gladys and Herbert Clark. Library copy printed October 1910. Case binding.

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July 23, 1907, Usm Special Collections Jul 1907

July 23, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about her vacation trip from where she was staying in Tokyo to several different places around Japan. She writes of her stay in a Japanese style hotel. She also writes about the scenery around her, and about how long it takes her by rail to get to her travel destinations. She also writes of a traveling companion named George, and how she has invited Abbie to come and visit her and meet George.

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April 11, 1907, Usm Special Collections Apr 1907

April 11, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about life in Japan. She writes about the climate, and how she finds she cannot do as much due to the "enervating" nature of the climate there. She describes a "sword walking" ceremony, in which one climbs a ladder made of swords. She then writes of the beginnings of spring in Japan and how there is a fair coming to Japan, "the largest ever held in Japan."

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January 18, 1907, Usm Special Collections Jan 1907

January 18, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about the "glorious" scenery where she is staying. She writes of the mountains, streams, tall oak trees, and blossoms as the season changes from winter to spring.

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The Hanging Of The Crane, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur Ignatius Keller, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1907

The Hanging Of The Crane, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur Ignatius Keller, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

30 ℓ. : 13 leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title in green and black within ornamental border; decorations; initials in color. "Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Designs by Florence W. Swan." Book in poor condition, loose pages, in binder.

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The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Brander Matthews, M. Power O'Malley, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1907

The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Brander Matthews, M. Power O'Malley, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

xxxviii, 131 pages, [18] leaves of plates : frontispiece (hand colored), plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. A play. Green cloth binding, decorations and lettering stamped in gold, signed by the designer: M.A. [Margaret Armstrong]. "Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston"--Title page verso. Publishers paper dustjacket in mylar cover. Gift of Selma Ordewer, in memory of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi.

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December 26, 1906, Usm Special Collections Dec 1906

December 26, 1906, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets to thank her for the Christmas gifts. She describes the table that they set for a traditional western-style Christmas. They invited a Japanese couple, who were described by Cora to be very fascinated with the Christmas decor. She also tells Mrs. Tibetts about her coming vacation with George to Oshima, as there is a volcano there that they are intending to climb.

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Historic Buildings Of America, Esther Singleton, Alice Morse, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1906

Historic Buildings Of America, Esther Singleton, Alice Morse, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

xiv, 341 pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Forty seven buildings are described, largely in Massachusetts, with some more in other New England and Mid-Atlantic States, one in California, two in South Carolina, and several in both Canada and Mexico. CONTENTS: The Capitol, Washington / Joseph B. Varnum -- Within the Capitol / Charles Dickens -- Arlington, Virginia / Iza Duffus Hardy -- Carpenter's Hall / Benson J. Lossing -- The Cradock House, Medford / Samuel Adams Drake -- Fraunces Tavern / William …

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The World's Christmas Tree, Charles E. Jefferson, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1906

The World's Christmas Tree, Charles E. Jefferson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

2 p. ℓ., 44, [1] pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: The World's Christmas Tree -- How certain men long ago were led to the King. "Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston"--title page verso. Title page printed in red and black, red border frame. Written in ink, front endpage: Helen Cochran, Christmas 1906. Green book cloth binding, decoration, title, author stamped in gold and white on cover. Color printed card (7 x 43/4 in.), inside back cover. Printed on one side, poem, "Peace" …

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Earring Thinking, Kate Connell, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jul 1905

Earring Thinking, Kate Connell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Fashion

4 unnumbered pages (single folded sheet), 16 unnumbered plates (some folded) : color illustrations, samples, 18 cm. Title from portfolio. In portfolio (22 x 14 x 3 cm). Describes the process of designing, making and curating for the intimate, magnetic and highly visible place that earrings occupy."-- page [1]. Mounted inside the booklet is a sealed paper envelope containg ear wires, jump rings, safety pins, and a sample paper cutout. Plates include color illustrations of jewelry pieces that can be cutout and mounted with wires to create an earring. Englehart C. Ostby Fund.

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This Is A Book, Kevin Ho, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jul 1905

This Is A Book, Kevin Ho, Special Collections, Fleet Library

5th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2019

No abstract provided.

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59 Dreams: A Nocturnal Year, Teresa Pankratz, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jul 1905

59 Dreams: A Nocturnal Year, Teresa Pankratz, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations. Edition of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. "This book documents my year of dreaming: 59 portals into recalled nocturnal activities, witnessing a dream-self performing grand, heroic amd sometimes incomprehensible acts--hours and hours of accumulated living time, previously unaccounted for."--Introduction. "I wanted to make an affordable limited edition artists' book. I designed 59 Dreams: A Nocturnal Year to hold my original drawings and text--and be this book. It's custom printed and bound by Lowitz & Sons, Inc., Chicago, using Gil Sans Light on Mohawk Superfine ..."--Colophon. Perfect bound with French flaps and soft touch …

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The Flood | Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6, Kelie Bowman, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jun 1905

The Flood | Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6, Kelie Bowman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

#15. 1 of 32 publications in the Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6. Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6 curated by Cinders Gallery, contains 32 individual artists' books and zines by various artists, produced between 2007-2014. Mediums include: inkjet, hand painting, silkscreen, photocopy, collage, digital print, photo, pencil, ink. Bindings include: hand sewn, stapled, pamphlet. CONTENTS 1. Illnesstrations / Mike Taylor -- 2. Who's Gonna Empty the Catbox??? / Mel Kadel and Travis Millard -- 3. 14 regular polygons approach a circle / Karl Larocca -- 4. Vehicles of the Ancients / Mike Pare -- 5. Black Hair / Chris …

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The Conspicuous Condom, Richard Martin, Marvin Hoshino, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jun 1905

The Conspicuous Condom, Richard Martin, Marvin Hoshino, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Fashion

[xviii], 27, [5] pages : illustrations. 15 cm. "Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, September 5-12, 1989." Designer: Marvin Hoshino. Color initial on page [i]. Stapled, yellow paper cover. Gift of Madelyn Shaw.

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Robes & Gouaches Simultanés, 1925, Sonia Delaunay, Special Collections, Fleet Library May 1905

Robes & Gouaches Simultanés, 1925, Sonia Delaunay, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Fashion

48 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white), portraits, "L'art et le corps, rythmes-couleurs en mouvement". 22 x 30 cm. A collection of the artist's drawings related to clothing and costume design. Illustrated title page In French. Black and white printing, different color papers, mostly white, but including blue, green, orange-red. French fold paper. Adhesive binding, paper cover. Stains on title page and bottoms of following pages.

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Munsell Book Of Color: Defining, Explaining, And Illustrating The Fundamental Characteristics Of Color, Munsell Color (Firm), A. H. Munsell, Special Collections, Fleet Library Apr 1905

Munsell Book Of Color: Defining, Explaining, And Illustrating The Fundamental Characteristics Of Color, Munsell Color (Firm), A. H. Munsell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Color

42 pages, 26 color leaves of plates (some double) : illustrations ; 33cm ; Standard Edition. Preface signed: A.E.O. Munsell. Three "masks" laid in. Gift of Harris Equipment Fund. A revision and extension of "The atlas of the Munsell color system" by A.H. Munsell.

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Mother Goose's Rhymes, Chimes, And Jingles : Or The Nursery Treasure., C. P. Heustis, Vincent L. Dill, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1905

Mother Goose's Rhymes, Chimes, And Jingles : Or The Nursery Treasure., C. P. Heustis, Vincent L. Dill, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

24 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Rhymes with pictures. Caption title: Rhymes, chimes, and jingles; by Mother Goose. Hand colored illustration on cover. Illustration on title page. Cover title: Rhymes, chimes and jingles. Charles P. Hestis was located 104 Nassau St., New York, between 1843 and 1853. New York City directories list Huestis both as an individual publishing at 104 Nassau, and as a member of Huestis & Cozans between 1850 and 1852. Vincent L. Dill was active as a stereotyper in New York between 1826 and 1863. Lacking back cover.

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La Semaine De Suzette., Joseph Porphyre Pinchon, Henri Gautier, Éditions Gautier-Languereau, Imprimerie De Sceaux, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1905

La Semaine De Suzette., Joseph Porphyre Pinchon, Henri Gautier, Éditions Gautier-Languereau, Imprimerie De Sceaux, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Comics

Volumes : illustrations (some color). "Sceaux. Imprimerie Charaire." Includes the comic strip Bécassine by Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon. Bound with printed title page. "Cinquieme Annee [Fifth annual] Fevrier 1909-Fevrier 1910" Illustrated French children's magazine for girls. Bound together, green cloth on spine, with gold stamping. Marbled paper on boards.

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Eugene Field Reader, Alice Harris, Frank W. Cooley, Eugene Field, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1905

Eugene Field Reader, Alice Harris, Frank W. Cooley, Eugene Field, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

4 preliminary leaves, 96 pages : color illustrations, 20 cm. Illustrated collection of the poems of Eugene Fields. Illustrated title page in color. Case binding, black stamp lettering, illustration stamped in blue and black. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor Fayerweather. Inscribed to Eleanor from Dorothy K., New York, May 1909.

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Cornelii Taciti De Vita Et Moribvs Ivlii Agricolae Liber : De Origine Sitv Moribvs Ac Popvlis Germanorvm Liber, De Oratoribvs Dialogvs., Tacitus, Sarah Whitman, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1904

Cornelii Taciti De Vita Et Moribvs Ivlii Agricolae Liber : De Origine Sitv Moribvs Ac Popvlis Germanorvm Liber, De Oratoribvs Dialogvs., Tacitus, Sarah Whitman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

[49] pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Half-title: Cornelii Taciti opera minora. Edited by M.H. Morgan. Colophon: Huius libri, cui forma est binaria, exempla centum diligenter typis descripsit Magister Daniel Berkeley Vpdike in officina sua quae Hilarimontium dicitur, Bostoniae, in republica Massachusettensi, Martio mense anno salutis M.D.CCCC.IIII. De vita et moribvs Ivlii Agricolae liber -- De origine sitv moribvs ac popvlis Germanorvm liber -- De oratoribvs dialogvs. Edition of 100 copies. Binding, boards. Type, Merrymount. This copy includes an extra printing of the 2nd text page, printed on different paper. …

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Nell Robert’S Scrapbook, Nell Roberts Jan 1904

Nell Robert’S Scrapbook, Nell Roberts

Scrapbooks

Nell Roberts was born on May 2, 1886, in Harriman, Tennessee. She attended Belmont College for Young Women during the 1904-1906 school years. After school, she married Charles W. Whitcomb and became a homemaker. The pair that three children: James, Dorothy, and Mary. Sadly, Nell died after an operation on January 7, 1929. Her husband would pass on March 28, 1959.

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