Editore: The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 1907
Da: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hard cover 8vo, in blue cloth blocked with gold seal and titles to top board and spine, illustrated with many full page portraits, top edge gilt, xiii, 236 pp., First Edition. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge U.S.A. Engraved bookplate of the book's original owner, Ralph Sylvester Bartlett (1868-1960) **Condition: Very Good. Shows some edge wear, with rubbing at joints, head and tail of spine. Some marks to the rear cover. Inch-long closed tear repaired to title page. Mildly age toned. **The Eliot, Maine-born Mr. Bartlett was a graduate of Dartmouth College, and a Boston lawyer who found a second career in the art world, amassing a huge collection of White Russian antiquities and art during the 1920's and 30's, which he would eventually donate to his alma mater. The scope of this collection, and the story behind its accrual is the subject of a fascinating article by Robert H. Davis entitled " Russian Art and Russian Studies at Dartmouth: The Case of Ralph Sylvestor Bartlett," appearing in the Journal of Russian American Studies 4.1 (May 2020). **The book details the first hundred years of the history of the Boston Atheneum, from the building of new facilities, the development of the library's collections, the art collection, and the importance of the Atheneum to the literary life of Boston in the nineteenth century. It recounts stories about the participation of some of its most famous members, among them (Newburyport's own) Theophilus Parsons, Hannah Adams, Nathaniel Bowditch, Daniel Webster, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Francis Parkman Jr. et al. There is a list of the Founders, Officers, and Proprietors, which reads like a who's who of nineteenth-century Boston society. It was the largest, most extensive collection of the time. Book.
Data di pubblicazione: 2025
Da: True World of Books, Delhi, India
EUR 21,29
Quantità: 18 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloLeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1938 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 42 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 42 Bartlett, Ralph Sylvester, 1868-.