An inspiration to all who enter : fifty works from Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library /

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Corporate author / creator:Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Imprint:New Haven : Published by Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2013]
Description:128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9352371
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Varying Form of Title:Fifty works from Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Other authors / contributors:James, Kathryn, 1970-
ISBN:9780300196429
0300196423
Summary:In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University's Beinecke Library, one of the world's great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library's most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library's curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce's proof sheets to 'Anna Livia Plurabelle', a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes's 'Montage of a Dream Deferred' in original manuscript form, and many others.
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Summary:<p>In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University's Beinecke Library, one of the world's great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library's most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library's curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce's proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle , a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes's Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others.</p> <br> <br> <br> Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
ISBN:9780300196429
0300196423