“… If a particular kind of reddish brown, crêpe wavy hair came in (his studio), he was away in a moment struggling for an introduction to the owner of said head of hair. He is not as mad as a March hare, but hair-mad,” Elizabeth Gaskell once wrote of the […]
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Oscar Wilde’s Salomé is a Christian nightmare. The story goes: King of Judea, King Herod, requests an adult dance from step-daughter Salomé; driven with lust for and revenge with, Salomé demands prophet John the Baptist’s severed head as her reward. Wilde wrote the play in French in Paris in 1893. Salomé came […]
It wasn’t until the third time I heard my name being called out at this year’s New York Antiquarian Book Fair that I headed to the next booth. I had no plans of departing from the booth I was in, Jonkers Rare Books; I wanted to take my time, make […]
Algernon Charles Swinburne Critical Research Guide ◈ Deirdre Fanzo ◈ ENG 356 Background Information: Algernon Charles Swinburne was one of the great Victorian poets whose compositions often included such taboo topics as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. Swinburne was heavily influenced by the pornographic works of de Sade, and his […]
William Morris News from Nowhere or, An epoch of rest During our visit to the University Of Delaware Library our class got the special opportunity of going to the Mark Samuels Lasner collection. This special collection had thousands of archives, particularly books focused on the British literature during the period […]
A collection that was very interesting to me was the collection of Seth Kaller. His focus was on American History. He is interested on civil war, revolutionary war, and presidential history, He is mostly known for having a huge collection of political l archives and important documents signed by past […]
As the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s (ABAA) New York International Antiquarian Book Fair marked its 58th year, over 200 rare book collectors gathered and exhibited their manuscripts, paintings, books and other ephemera. Oddities and strangeness was included in every stall, including bizarre photos and lithographs, and obscure letters from […]
The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware held an unpublished letter and biographical entry by English essayist and aesthete Walter Pater (1839-1894) and bore the unofficial title of “My dear Madam,” Reference Code:105880. It was sold to the Lasner Collection for USD $600. Below are the original […]
The manuscript below is an art piece by Edward Burne-Jones, who was almost entirely an artist. This manuscript was the intellectual property of the Mark Samuels Lasner collection in the University of Delaware. Below are pictures of the manuscript. Self-Caricature in the Studio at 17 Red Lion. Ink on […]
Of our endeavors at the Rare Book School, encountering the printing press was one of the most memorable and defining moments. Located in a room of its own, the printing press was one huge artifact surrounded by the many tools and components required to make it operable. While the printing […]
