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THE LIBRARY OF LEANDER VAN ESS AND THE EARLIEST AMERICAN COLLECTIONS OF REFORMATION PAMPHLETS.
Gatch, Milton McC.
BSA Occastional Publications, No.1
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Reformation pamphlets (or "Flugschriften") were among the first rare book acquisitions of American libraries. Gatch traces the remarkable history of the Leander van Ess collection purchased by the Union Theological Seminary in 1838, the first and largest collection of these religious tracts to arrive in America. He notes how they were originally obtained by van Ess, a Catholic priest, translator of the Bible, and a former Benedictine monk, who built an impressive personal collection of books and manuscripts when monastic libraries were being dispersed during the Napoleonic wars. Gatch has also identified a significant group of pamphlets assembled at Wittenberg during the 1520s, Luther's most creative period. Never before accurately described, the surviving pamphlets from this collection are listed here in the order of van Ess's own catalogue, with a set of indexes to authors and printers, and with concordances to major bibliographical resources. Gatch reviews the history Reformation pamphlet collecting in the United States from these earliest efforts up to the beginning of the twentieth century, and reflects on how these primary resources were used (or neglected) by American church historians. An extensive bibliography and a detailed index of the introductory essays are included. Illustrated. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society of America.
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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Limited edition of 700. Coleridge's famed poem. Frontispiece and color illustrations (five total) by Duncan Grant, (1885-1978), a painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group. The marginal notes are printed in red alongside text of poem. The plates were made and printed by the Raynard Press on Arnold hand-made paper. The binding was executed by Henderson and Bisset, Edinburgh; and the medallion and lettering on the binding were designed by Percy Metcalfe, C.V.O. Spine faded; faint stain along bottom of back cover.
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