Title: Bookmen's holiday :
Authors: New York Public Library.; Lydenberg, Harry Miller,; Fulton, Deoch,; Adler, Elmer,
Date: 1943
Publisher: the New York public library,
Physical description: xili, 573 p., 1 l. : front. (port.) ill., plates, facsim. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
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--. 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.I. Enhomeral 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 witchcrft: Holmes, T.J. A letter on books and witches. Mulholland, John. Magic in the library.--Lydenberg as a friend, by Royal Crotissoz.--Printers, printing and binding: Buhler, C.F. Variants in English incunabula. Hofer, Philip. Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard: printers of the late renaissance. Jackson, W.A. Notes on English "publishers' bindings" of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Wilmerding, Lucius. Le prince, by Jean Louis Guez de Balzac: note on a Paris printing, 1631. Wroth, L.C. The Cambridge press.--Amicus amico, by D.B. Updyke.--Humilibus placent hunalia, by John Archer.
Notes: Bibliographical foot-notes. Preface signed: Deoch Fulton.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bibliography.; Book collecting.; Book collectors.; Books--History; Illustration of books.; Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960--Bibliography.; Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960.; Printing--History; Printing.