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Butleriana: PB 304-2003

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Titles

Butleriana

Maker(s)

Author: Butler, Samuel
Contributor: Bartholomew, Augustus Theodore
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Printer: Ingham, Ernest
Printer: Fanfare Press

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Description

Selection from the appendices of v.3 and 6 of the main series of Butler's manuscript "Note-books" forms the nucleus of the present volume. Other scattered notes have been amplified in some cases from letters and other sources. cf. Pref. signed: A. T. Bartholomew

Bio-bibliographical statement (p. xiii-xvi)--Two fragments of autobiography.--Father and son.--Charles Paine Pauli and S. Butler.--Jones and myself.--Alfred.--Miss Savage.--Bossiana.

Xvi, 172 p. : front., pl., ports ; 24 cm

Place(s) associated

  • London
  • Edinburgh

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1932

Note

"800 copies printed in England by Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press: of which 600 copies are for sale in England and 200 copies are for sale by Random House Inc. in America. The illustrations, with the exception of Miss Savage, are all hitherto unpublished. This is number [in ms] 728."--Colophon. Quarter bound in leather with gold fillet, marble paper sides over boards.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 304-2003
Primary reference Number: 95907
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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