American Bookbindings in the Library of Henry William Poor

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Printed at the Marion Press, 1903 - 77 páginas
Includes "39 collotype plates in very rich colors with letterpress goldleaf as in the original bindings. Plates of bindings and linings. Collotype (Photolithograph?) printed in multiple registered colors with goldleaf printed by relief by Edward Bierstadt, New York. ..."--Hanson Collection catalog, page 136.

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Página 30 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Página 30 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprung and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Página 33 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Página 16 - Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Página 36 - ANDREWS (WILLIAM LORING). New Amsterdam, New Orange, New York: a chronologically -arranged account of engraved views of the city from the first picture published in 1651 until the year 1800.
Página 16 - EPIPSYCHIDION. VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE NOBLE AND UNFORTUNATE LADY, EMILIA V , NOW IMPRISONED IN THE CONVENT OF . L'anima amante si slancia fuori del creato, e si crea nel infinite un Mondo tutto per essa, diverse assai da questo oscuro e pauroso baratro.
Página 34 - Ibid., II, 26. CHAPTER VIII 1 The Praise of Folie. Moriae encomium a booke made in Latin by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. Englished by Sir Thomas Chaloner Knight. Anno.
Página 16 - One Hundred and Seventy-Six Historic and Artistic Book-bindings, Dating from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time, Pictured by Etchings, Artotypes and Lithographs after the Originals Selected from the Library of Robert Hoe.
Página 36 - THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP, and Other Sketches. By Francis Bret Harte. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. 1870. An important point: The first issue of the first edition (and therefore the most valuable) does not include the story, "Brown of Calaveras," which was added in a second printing in the same year.
Página 36 - Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea. Kelmscott Press, 1894.

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