EditorialPleated fan, Printed paper leaf, wood sticks, Paper leaf with the obverse printed with a pastoral scene of shepherds and shepherdesses, and a poem. Scene is entitled: 'La ruse d'amour.' Other either side is three 8-line stanzas of a poem: 'Air on compt...
EditorialKitao Masanobu (Sant Kyden), A New Series of Fifty Poets' Stanzas of the Temmei Period; A Bookcase of Humorous Poems in the Azuma (i.e. Edo) Style, Japan, Edo period (16151868), Kitao Masanobu (Sant Kyden) (Japanese, 17611816), January 30, 1786, Japan,...
EditorialA burst of flame and on either side a lion salient before a wall, and two scrolls ('The mouth of the Collorick beware' and 'Heare is the last of the red stone and the beginning to put away the dead the elixir vita'). A sun above a crowned male Bird of ...
EditorialA crescent moon, being bitten by a large brown dragon, beneath, standing on a winged mappa mundi -style orb upon which droplets of blood are falling from the dragon's belly. - verses, in four stanzas. - a waving male figure in peasant dress, holding a ...
EditorialPoem of John Dryden. England [London]; 1659. [Whole folio] Autograph fair copy of Dryden's first major poem 'Heroic Stanzas'; an elegy on the death of Oliver Cromwell Originally published/produced in England [London]; 1659. . Source: Lansdowne 1045, f...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...
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