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The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the
largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In
Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American
success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in
1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all
manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a
master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked
passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing
their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard
Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John
D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered
to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the
American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar
if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real
estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They
commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building
with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan
Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's
birthday on April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios,
277,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than
100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate
students, and researchers from around the world with access to the
collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, DC, for
cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and
poetry readings. With unprecedented access to the primary sources
within the Folger vault, Grant draws on interviews with surviving
Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United
States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple
who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in
America.
In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American
success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who
were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by
the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers
started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about
Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in
Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a
tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with
the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of
New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller
Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the
collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people.
Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names
were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol
Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and
construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public
exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger
Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday, April 23,
1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 275,000 books, and 60,000
manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and
provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers
from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a
vibrant center in Washington, D.C., for cultural programs,
including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. The
library provided Grant with unprecedented access to the primary
sources within the Folger vault. He draws on interviews with
surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the
United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable
couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in
America.
This multi-authored effort, Mathematics of the nineteenth century
(to be fol lowed by Mathematics of the twentieth century), is a
sequel to the History of mathematics from antiquity to the early
nineteenth century, published in three volumes from 1970 to 1972. 1
For reasons explained below, our discussion of twentieth-century
mathematics ends with the 1930s. Our general objectives are
identical with those stated in the preface to the three-volume
edition, i. e., we consider the development of mathematics not
simply as the process of perfecting concepts and techniques for
studying real-world spatial forms and quantitative relationships
but as a social process as well. Mathematical structures, once
established, are capable of a certain degree of autonomous
development. In the final analysis, however, such immanent
mathematical evolution is conditioned by practical activity and is
either self-directed or, as is most often the case, is determined
by the needs of society. Proceeding from this premise, we intend,
first, to unravel the forces that shape mathe matical progress. We
examine the interaction of mathematics with the social structure,
technology, the natural sciences, and philosophy. Through an anal
ysis of mathematical history proper, we hope to delineate the
relationships among the various mathematical disciplines and to
evaluate mathematical achievements in the light of the current
state and future prospects of the science. The difficulties
confronting us considerably exceeded those encountered in preparing
the three-volume edition."
This paper studies the qualities of leadership possessed by Sir
Henry Buller, to what extent they were weakened or strengthened by
cultural environment, and how he made decisions based on the events
during the war.
Title: The Hudson River Railroad observations on the western trade
and its influence upon the growth and prosperity of the cities of
New York, Boston and Philadelphia through several competing lines
of communication and the Hudson River Railroad.Author: William H
GrantPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04744100CollectionID:
CTRG04-B307PublicationDate: 18460101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Signed (p. 38): Wm. H. Grant.Collation: 40 p
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Beat It! (1907) (Paperback)
Hugh McHugh, George Vere Hobart; Illustrated by Gordon H. Grant
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R614
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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Go to It (Paperback)
George V Hobart; Illustrated by Gordon H. Grant
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R613
Discovery Miles 6 130
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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Beat It! (1907) (Paperback)
Hugh McHugh, George Vere Hobart; Illustrated by Gordon H. Grant
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R614
Discovery Miles 6 140
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