A collection of 78 photographs, in three volumes, of authors, including Mark Van Doren, Roland Barthes, Elie Weisel, Arna Bontemps, Alger Hiss, Wole Soyinka, Arthur Kopit, and Eric Bentley. A fourth volume contains 17 photographs of Montana ranchers ...
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Arthur Woods Wang, founder of publishing firm, Hill and Wang.
A collection of 78 photographs, in three volumes, of authors, including Mark Van Doren, Roland Barthes, Elie Weisel, Arna Bontemps, Alger Hiss, Wole Soyinka, Arthur Kopit, and Eric Bentley. A fourth volume contains 17 photographs of Montana ranchers ...
Description:
Arthur Woods Wang, founder of publishing firm, Hill and Wang.
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figu...
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Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figu...
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
A collection of notes by Horace Walpole over the course of three years -- 1759, 1771, 1786 -- on a very wide range of topics. The volumes for 1759 and 1771 include: notes on books he is reading; observations about historical events and historical figu...
Description:
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford (1676-1745), Britain's longest-serving prime minister.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Art, British, Art, Private collections, Historic buildings, Manors, Castles, Aristocracy (Social class), Homes and haunts, Politicians, Authors, English, Kings and rulers, History, and Social life and customs
20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Let...
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Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hu...
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
Autograph manuscript song texts and other writings by Charles Dibdin, some with watermarks dated 1794-1814; an autograph letter, signed, from Dibdin's wife Anne Dibdin to William Kitchiner, 1824 February 28, referring to her husband's death and to a b...
Description:
Charles Dibdin, English composer, author, and actor; husband of Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); father of engraver Anne Dibdin (born circa 1776).
Subject (Geographic):
England., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Anne, 1757-1835., Dibdin, Anne, approximately 1776-, Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814., Dibdin, E. Rimbault 1853-1941. (Edward Rimbault),, Freemantle, W. T. (William Thomas), Kitchiner, William, 1775?-1827., and Sievier, Robert William, 1794-1865.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English, Composers, English drama, Engravers, Illustration of books, Manuscripts, Collectors and collecting, Music, Instructions and study, Songs, English, Theater, and Vocal music
Collection contains letters from Isherwood to Lehmann, carbon copies of replies from Lehmann, and photocopies of several letters, without originals, which came with the collection. Letters discuss Isherwood's life in Europe and America, the political ...
Description:
Christopher Isherwood, British author.
Subject (Name):
Auden, W. H. 1907-1973. (Wystan Hugh),, Bachardy, Don, 1934-, Forster, E. M. 1879-1970. (Edward Morgan),, Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986., Isherwood, Richard., Lehmann, John, 1907-1987., Plomer, William, 1903-1973., Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995., Upward, Edward., Viertel, Berthold., and Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English, English literature, and World War, 1939-1945
Collection contains letters from Isherwood to Lehmann, carbon copies of replies from Lehmann, and photocopies of several letters, without originals, which came with the collection. Letters discuss Isherwood's life in Europe and America, the political ...
Description:
Christopher Isherwood, British author.
Subject (Name):
Auden, W. H. 1907-1973. (Wystan Hugh),, Bachardy, Don, 1934-, Forster, E. M. 1879-1970. (Edward Morgan),, Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986., Isherwood, Richard., Lehmann, John, 1907-1987., Plomer, William, 1903-1973., Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995., Upward, Edward., Viertel, Berthold., and Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English, English literature, and World War, 1939-1945
