Archives and Special Collections
Recent acquisitions and additions
February 2005
The following exciting new items were recently added to the holdings of the Archives and Special Collections. Please visit us on the ground floor of the Shadek-Fackenthal Library to see them and more.
Rare Books
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition of Dickens' edited and largely ghost written Memoirs of the famous 19th-century British clown/entertainer Joseph Grimaldi. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Mid-twentieth century Cosway-style binding by Bayntun-Riviere with inlayed portrait on ivory of a young Charles Dickens in Vol. 1 and inlayed colored leather portrait of Grimaldi in Vol. 2.
Friends of the Library fund purchase.
Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549.
The whole booke of psalmes / collected into English meeter by Th, Sternhold, Io. Hopkins, W. Whittingham, and others; conferred with the Hebrew...
London: Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1636. This small personal psalter is bound in silver thread embroidered silk and is an example of 17th century English embroidered binding.
Friends of the Library Fund purchase.
Limited edition imprints of local independent publisher All Kinds Blintzes Press
Farber, J. Joel, compiler and translator. The Jewess of Valor. Lancaster: All Kinds Blintzes Press, 2004.
Compilation of several stories of the Biblical Jewish heroine Judith.
Evans, Patricia Healy, 1920- Hopscotch. Lancaster: All Kinds Blintzes Press, 2004. Luce, Nancy 1814-1890. Poor Little Hearts Lancaster: All Kinds Blintzes Press, 2004.
Friends of the Library Fund purchase.
High quality facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts
Latini, Brunetto, 1220-1295. Li livres dou tresor.
Barcelona : M. Moleiro Editor, S.A., 2000.
Limited edition facsimile of original 13th century French manuscript
in the Russian National Library, St. Petersburg. Written by Florentine Latini,
the work is famous as the first vernacular encyclopedia of knowledge.
Hawley Fund LIbrary purchase.
Libro del Caballero Zifar : cŪdice de Paris. Barcelona : M. Moleiro Editor, S.A., 1996.
Facsimile of original in The National Library of France. Medieval
Spanish work of fiction.
Hawley Fund Library purchase.
Special Collections
WWI Poster- "First in France U.S. Marines" by John A. Coughlin.
Friends of the Library Fund purchase
WWI Poster-
"Tell that to the Marines" by James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960)
Friends of the Library Fund purchase
WWI Poster-
"Yanks in Germany want more books. Take good live fiction to the Public Library for immediate shipment. American Library Association." by Charles Buckles Falls (1874-1959.)
Friends of the Library Fund purchase
Early-twentieth century sheet music collection
Collection of sheet music dating
from ca. 1900-1917, owned by Ella Pate of Brooklyn, NY. Contains popular
songs of the day including Blue Bell, Tommy (Tell Me True), Could You
Learn to Love a Little Girl Like Me?, On the Old See-Saw, Cheer up: Cherries
will Soon be Ripe, In Dear Old Tennessee, Be Sure He's Irish (Then Love
Him in That Good Old Irish Way), Down on the Brandywine.
Gift of Warren (F&M 1953) and Gloria Leventhal.
