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(Newton, A. Edward) DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
(New York Ernest R. Gee) n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers single sheet folded
This piece is an announcement and form to reserve one of the 125 copies of the portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson engraved in Mezzotint by H. Blackburne Hart and printed in color. The portait was based on the original by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the collection of A. Edward Newton. A black-and-white reproduction is tipped-in on the upper wrapper. Horizontal crease in both wrappers, which is almost completely split. Wrappers soiled, tanned, and worn.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 95476

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Newton, A. Edward IT MAY INTEREST MY FRIENDS TO KNOW THAT THE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT IT MAY INTEREST MY FRIENDS TO KNOW THE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT FROM WHICH THE ENCLOSED WAS MADE, NOW FORMS A PART OF MY JOHNSON COLLECTION...
Oak Knoll privately printed 1922 8vo. stiff paper self wrappers printed in brown ink with the above heading and three paragraphs of text. Loosely inserted is a full color reproduction of one of Newton's most prized possessions, Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of Samuel Johnson.
One of the scarcest of the Newton Christmas greetings (Fleck B.16).
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 52579

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Newton, A. Edward MEN AND GHOSTS OF GOUGH SQUARE
N.P. Privately printed 1930 small 8vo, blue paper wrappers, cord-tied. 24 pages.
First edition (Fleck A.27). With Joshua Reynolds' portrait of Samuel Johnson reproduced as a frontispiece. Newton owned this painting. A short biography of Johnson and the Johnson house. Signed by Newton on the title page.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 14913

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(Reynolds, Joshua) Davies, Randall. REYNOLDS.
London Adam and Charles Black 1913 4to. cloth. 52, 16 pages of plates.
A biography of Joshua Reynolds, one of the greatest painters in the seventeen hundreds. Illustrated with sixteen examples in color of his work. Corners bent and worn.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 58436

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Wendorf, Richard. THE LITERATURE OF COLLECTING & OTHER ESSAYS.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts Oak Knoll Press and the Boston Athenæum 2008 6 x 9 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 376 pages
First edition. In this new collection of essays, many published here for the first time, the author of the warmly reviewed Scholar-Librarian leads a series of further explorations into the world of books, libraries and the visual arts. In his extended title essay, Richard Wendorf provides a groundbreaking investigation of the relationship between the theoretical texts devoted to collecting and the rich fictional texts that also take collecting as their focus: not just John Fowles's The Collector, but also Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover, Evan Connell's The Connoisseur, Tibor Fischer's The Collector Collector, Bruce Chatwin's Utz, and Ian McEwan's early short story "Solid Geometry." Wendorf shows how the critical arguments posed by Benjamin, Baudrillard, Muensterberger and others play out in these modern literary texts and how, in turn, these fictional works complicate the ways in which we think about what it means to be a collector.

Wendorf devotes two chapters to library history: a bicentennial essay on the Boston Athenæum and an investigation of the origins of America's membership libraries in England and its colonies in the eighteenth century. Returning to the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, the focus of much of his scholarly work, Wendorf includes four essays, two of which provide fresh assessments of Reynolds's career, while the other two document his relationships within the blue-stocking world of Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale Piozzi and his sister Frances Reynolds. And in a tour de force near the end of this volume ("Deconstructing Athena - and Me"), Wendorf writes about what it is like to serve not just as the scholarly interpreter of portraiture but as the photographic subject of it as well.

Richard Wendorf is the Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenæum, which he has helped shepherd through a historic renovation and expansion project as well as its 2007 bicentennial. He was previously the Librarian (director) of Harvards Houghton Library and, before that, Professor of English and Art History at Northwestern University, where he also served as the undergraduate academic dean. His publications include the award-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Harvard) and After Sir Joshua: Essays on British Art and Cultural History (Yale). This represents his third book with Oak Knoll Press; its companions are The Scholar-Librarian (2005) and America's Membership Libraries (2007). Co-published with the Boston Athenæum.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 96668

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