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MANUSCRIPT CALLIGRAPHY BOOK CONTAINING 'THE AMERICAN EAGLE', ETC.
by [AMERICANA]; DEE, Master W.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[Original manuscript]; [Tewkesbury: Shuthonger House School]; London: Relfe Brothers., [1859]. Manuscript school calligraphy book belonging to Master W. Dee, a pupil of Shuthonger House School, Tewkesbury. Quarto. Contemporary half green morocco over blue marbled boards with printed name plate to the upper board. Marbling to page edges. Decorative printed title page. 85pp. completed in calligraphic manuscript in black and red ink (the remaining 29pp. blank), comprising 33 poetic and literary excerpts, with decorative titles to each piece, some incorporating drawings of quills. Condition is very good, the binding is firm with some chipping to the head of the spine and rubbing to the boards. The contents with a little cracking in places are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. A beautifully-executed calligraphic commonplace book produced by a talented young English scholar, notable - and uncommon - for its inclusion of an early American patriotic poem - 'The American Eagle' by C. W. [Charles West] Thompson, c.1830s (5pp.) - in praise of the nation's beloved symbol:
"Bird of Columbia! well art thou
An emblem of our native land;
With unblench'd front and noble brow,
Among the nations doom'd to stand;
Proud, like her mighty mountain woods;
Like her own rivers, wandering free;
And sending forth, from hills and floods,
The joyous shout of liberty!"
The other titles in the book offer a diverse mixture of the literary, historical, scientific and philosophical, including 'The Chameleon'; 'The Country Bumpkin and The Razor Seller'; 'The Newcastle Apothecary'; 'Waterloo'; 'Rollin's Address to the Peruvians'; 'Pneumatics'; 'Modern Logic'; and 'On the Death of Sir Thomas Moore'.
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- Bookseller
- Sky Duthie Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1059
- Title
- MANUSCRIPT CALLIGRAPHY BOOK CONTAINING 'THE AMERICAN EAGLE', ETC.
- Author
- [AMERICANA]; DEE, Master W.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [Original manuscript]; [Tewkesbury: Shuthonger House School]; London: Relfe Brothers.
- Date Published
- [1859]
- Keywords
- History & Military|Politics, Philosophy, & Economics|Literature|Children's Books|Manuscripts
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About Sky Duthie Rare Books
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Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Marbled boards
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- Spine
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