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Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHS. The name Titanic has become synonymous with catastrophe, the story of this luxurious liner legendary. Wrecked after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, the loss of around 1,500 lives among her passengers and crew has gone down in history as one of the most emotive and tragic disasters in history. In this evocative collection of photographs the authors of Titanic The ShipMagnificent tell her full story, from...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the pre-Gutenberg age. Ranging from the earliest intact book in Europe, to the only known literary manuscript to be written in Shakespeare's hand, scholar Mary Wellesley reveals the secret lives of these literary and artistic treasures. Traipsing through the remarkable history, she recounts fires (the only surviving Beowulf manuscript is singed at its edges, losing a bit of its matter every decade)...
Author
Publisher
The Clarendon Press
Pub. Date
1930
Physical Desc
2 volumes : frontispieces, plates, portraits, maps (some folded) facsimiles (some folded) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covers the whole field of Shakespeare criticism. Includes individual chapters on plays, biographical information, records, allusions, legends, and forgery lists.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 388 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This illustrated collection of essays examines early Native American contact with European explorers, fishermen, and traders in "Norumbega," the sixteenth-century name of the Atlantic coast of New England near the Penobscot River in Maine. This coast was the focus of several French and English voyagers seeking a northwest passage and other avenues to riches and treasure. A tacit division gradually emerged: the French concentrated on the region north...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Julius Norwich--who the Wall Street Journal called "the very model of a popular historian"--has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early sixteenth century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers, all born within a ten-year period: Francis I of France, the personification of the Renaissance, who became a highly influential patron of the arts and education. Henry VIII, who was not expected to inherit...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As You Like It, Shakespeare's most lighthearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays, was probably written in 1599 or 1600, though it was not printed until the First Folio of 1623. As its witty heroine is Shakespeare's longest female role, the play's performance history is marked by notable Rosalinds, from Hannah Pritchard and Margaret Woffington (giving rival performances in 1741), to Helen Faucit, Ada Rehan, Peggy...
Pub. Date
1873
Physical Desc
3 boxes + 1 framed poster.
Language
English
Description
The collection of consists of documents, manuscripts, memorabilia, ephemera, photographs, ribbons, artifacts, plans, blueprints, and posters related to the Barnstable Agricultural and County Fairs dating from 1873 to 1939. The collection was acquired from Dave Crocker, whose grandfather was a Fair Committee Chairperson and instrumental in the planning and implementation of the Fair in the early years of the 20th century. In 2023, materials that were...
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