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34. Mueller, Jerry E. (editor). AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT, 1805-1886.
Providence, Rhode Island: John Carter Brown Library, 2006, 6 x 9 inches, cloth. 256 pages. ISBN
9780916617660. $50.00 $37.50
First edition. John Russell Bartlett, a major American bibliographer and artist of the Southwest, had a remarkably
multi-faceted career. He was for a time a bookseller, Chief of the United States Boundary Commission that
established the border with Mexico following the Mexican-American War, Secretary of State of Rhode Island for 17
years, and, for many years, John Carter Browns personal librarian. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms saw three
editions in the nineteenth century, and was again reprinted in 2000. His Personal Narrative about his years on the
Boundary commission is a classic document of Western Americana. Distributed for the John Carter Brown Library.
[Order No. 99378]
35. Farren, Donald and August A. Imholtz, Jr. (editors). THE BALTIMORE BIBLIOPHILES AT
FIFTY, 1954-2004. With "Children's Books in Bygone Baltimore" An essay and a catalogue by Linda F.
Lapides. Baltimore: The Baltimore Bibliophiles, 2009, 6 x 9 inches, hardcover. 176 pages. ISBN
9781584562511. $55.00 $41.25
With this volume the Baltimore Bibliophiles celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their founding, demonstrating the
flourishing of bibliophily in Baltimore and the vigor of the organization. Included in the book are an account and a
catalogue of early children's books in Baltimore by Linda F. Lapides. A separate section presents the historical
record of the organization. The book contains historical accounts of the club, an interview with P. William Filby --
recurrent speaker at meetings of the club and the only person to serve twice non-consecutively as president, an
interview with newspaperman and longtime member, James H. Bready, lists of members, meetings, and
publications, the constitution of the club, and a list of the subscribers to the publication of the book. The section
"Children's Books in Bygone Baltimore," which occupies two-thirds of the book, demonstrates the collecting of
children's books in Baltimore. This book is a contribution both to the history of bibliophile organizations in the
United States and to scholarship on early children's books in America. [Order No. 101279]
36. Swenson, May. A BASIN OF EGGS. (New Haven, CT): Yale University, 1982, broadside (17 x 12
inches). $35.00 $26.25
Limited to 50 numbered copies. A Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside issued by the library. Broadside of the
poem A Basin of Eggs by May Swenson printed on hand-made paper for the occasion of the Bollingen Prize
Reading which she won in 1981. [Order No. 99717]
37. (Children's books) Alderson, Brian & Felix de Marez Oyens. BE MERRY AND WISE: ORIGINS
OF CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHING IN ENGLAND, 1650-1850. New Castle, Delaware: Oak
Knoll Press & The British Library, 2006, 9 x 12 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 320 pages. ISBN
9781584561804. $115.00 $86.25
The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had
its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. In conducting their survey, which is
centered upon the books themselves, mostly drawn from the holdings of the Morgan Library, the authors not only
plot the chronological development of children's book publishing from almost random beginnings to the diversity
of the early Victorian period, they also show how publishers adapted their trade methods to exploit this new
market. Co-published with the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Bibliographical Society of America, and The British
Library. Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library. [Order No. 90644]
38. Stillwell, Margaret Bingham. BEGINNING OF THE WORLD OF BOOKS, 1450 TO 1470: A
CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEXTS CHOSEN FOR PRINTING DURING THE
FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE PRINTING ART, WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG
DOCUMENTS. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1972, tall 8vo., cloth. xxviii, 112
pages. $17.50 $13.13
According to the Preface, for a hundred years or more, the bibliographical scholars of the world have sought to
identify the man of genius who, in the mid-fifteenth century, changed the course of civilization by introducing the
art of printing into the Western World. Our knowledge of Gutenberg and his claim rests upon two factors: a series
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