An Inspiration to All Who Enter: Fifty Works from Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300196423 ISBN 13: 9780300196429

Publisher: Beinecke Rare Book Library, 2013

Synopsis

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke Library, one of the world’s great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library’s most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library’s curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce’s proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle, a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathryn James is Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beinecke Rare Book Library
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300196423
• ISBN 13: 9780300196429
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: James Kathryn