Bookmen's holiday : notes and studies written and gathered in tribute to Harry Miller Lydenberg.

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Corporate Authors: New York Public Library., Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Public Library, 1943.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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's 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. Gorden, J.D. The secret of Dickens' Memoranda. Granniss, R.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.
  • Lydenberg in Cambridge and New York, by G.P. Winship.
  • Books in the medieval world: Bloch, Joshua The people and the book. Harrsen, Meta Figural 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 precursors 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