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Bookmen's holiday; notes and studies written and gathered in tribute to Harry Miller Lydenberg
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- New York : New York Public Library, 1943
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- xili, 573 pages, 1 leaf : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, plates, facsimile ; 24 cm
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- Bibliographical foot-notes.
- Board of editors.--Preface, by Deoch Fulton.--Introduction, by F. F. Hopper.--A bibliography of the published writings of Harry Miller Lydenberg, by G. L. McKay (p. 5-26)--Americana: Adams, R. G. A goodly company of American book collectors. Eberstadt, Charles. On Colorado guidebooks of '59. Lerch, A. H. Who was the printer of Jefferson's Notes? McDonald, G. D. New Year's addresses of American newsboys. Mencken, H. L. Notes on American given-names. Skeel, E. E. F. Not quite spurlos versunkt. Stillwell, M. B. Hawkins of the Hawkins zouaves. Vail, R. W. G. A western New York land prospectus. Waters, W. O. Franciscan missions of Upper California as seen by foreign visitors and residents.--A whole man,by F. P. Keppel.--Bookmen and authors: Goodspeed, C. E. Richard Franck. Gordon, J. D. The secret of Dicken's Memoranda. Granniss, Ruth S. Thomas Britton. Henderson, R. W. John Solomon Rarey. Kent, H. W. Encore Moreau de Saint-Méry.Paltsits, V. H. Herman Melville's background and new light on the publication of Typee.--Lyndenberg in Cambridge and New York, by G. P. Winship.--Books in the medieval world: Bloch, Joshua. The people and the book. Harrsen, Meta. Figured grisaille ornament on a historiated initial of about 1400, and the derivation of this style from the indulgences of Avignon. Yarmolinsky, Avrahm. A seventeenth-century Russian manuscript in the New York public library.--No man in our time, by Archibald MacLeish.--The graphic arts: Foster, A. E. "The fish I didn't catch." Ivins, W. M. A note on the earliest percursors of mezzotinting and aquatinting. Weitenkampf, Frank. Influences and trends in nineteenth-century illustration.--A great administrator, by F. J. Mather.--History and historians: Lingelbach, W. E. An early American historian. McCombs, C. F. Imprisonment of Madame de Lafayette during the terror. Van Hoesen, H. B. John Hay and the historian's use of newspapers.--A builder of library research collections, by K. D. Metcalf.--Libraries and librarians: Bishop, W. W. One problem for 1950 - woodpulp paper in books. Keogh, Andrew. Benjamin Silliman's trip to Europe in 1805. Wall, A. J. Ephemeral library material, its preservation, care and value. Wright, W. E. Subject headings in the Reference department of the New York public library.--Harry Lydenberg, bookman, by F. G. Melcher.--Magic and witchcraft: Holmes, T. J. A letter on books and witches. Mulholland, John. Magic in the library.-Index to v. 26-45, 1932-51, issued as the society's Monograph series, no. 2. Includes List of members, autumn 1953. Called also a supplement to Index, v. 1-25, 1899-1931