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Book Arts Ephemera collection, 1890-2019
158.5 Linear FeetThese files have been compiled by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library from its origin in 1930 through the present day. The material derives largely from gifts, and the occasional purchase; much of the subject file in particular is made of ephemera included in the American Type Founders, Co. Library, purchased in 1942. Prospectuses and information sent by fine presses and book artists are added to the relevant files in an ongoing fashion. The files cover subjects from the beginning of printing to the current day.
George Arthur Plimpton collection of Hornbooks, 1600-1900
7 boxesThis collection includes hornbooks, battledores, and facsimiles of hornbooks, a few hornbook-adjacent items, and supporting documents. Hornbooks and battledores were used from the 14th through the 19th centuries for the earliest steps of training in literacy: learning to recognize letterforms, and sometimes to read syllables and/or short texts.
Plimpton hornbooks
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Printed material by Plimpton on hornbooks Box 1, Folder 2
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- Printed material by Plimpton on hornbooks
Plimpton Hornbook No. 20 Box 4
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- make clay hornbooks or such delightful things as gingerbread hornbooks. "Mould for a Hornbook, made by
one Chadwick (about 1600) for the making of clay hornbooks or gingerbread ones. Matthew Prior (1664
Plimpton Hornbook No. 20 - Abstract Or Scope
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Wood [Hornbook mould] (England, 18th century) This unusual hornbook mould could have been used to make clay hornbooks or such delightful things as gingerbread hornbooks. "Mould for a Hornbook, made by one Chadwick (about 1600) for the making of clay hornbooks or gingerbread ones. Matthew Prior (1664-1721) (English poet, diplomat and contributor to The Examiner) said: "To Master John the English Maid -- A hornbook gives of gingerbread -- And that the child may learn the better -- All he can name, he eats the letter." Bought at the Andrew White Tuer sale, July 17, 1900, Lot 157)" This note was written on the back. . . . The mould is (5 ¼ x 3 ¼", plus 1' handle).
RBML Office Files, 1917-2022
176.26 linear feetHornbooks from the George A. Plimpton Collection, 1987 Box 338, Folder 2
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- Hornbooks from the George A. Plimpton Collection, 1987
Random House records, 1925-1999
702 linear feetThe collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Random House, Inc. from its founding in 1925 to the 1990s. The correspondence and editorial files include many of the prominent novelists and short story writers from 20th-century American and European literature: Saul Bellow; Erskine Caldwell; Truman Capote; William Faulkner; Sinclair Lewis; André Malraux; Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Among the poets there are files for W. H. Auden; Allen Ginsberg; Robinson Jeffers; Robert Lowell; and Stephen Spender. In the area of theater there are files for Maxwell Anderson; Moss Hart; Lillian Hellman; Eugene O'Neill; and Tennessee Williams. Random House transacted business with many fine presses and noted typographers and the archives contain files for Nonesuch Press, Grabhorn Press and Golden Cockerel Press, as wll as for Bruce Rogers, Valenti Angelo, and Edwin, Jane, and Robert Grabhorn.
Grayson, Charles: Sportsman's Hornbook Box 82
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George A. Plimpton Papers, 1634-1956
24 linear feetGeorge Arthur Plimpton Library
16000 VolumesThe Plimpton Library of 16,000 volumes- a 1936 gift of George A. Plimpton - covers what the collector called "our tools of learning" from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. The cataloged books are described in the card catalog and in CLIO. There are a good number of uncataloged books, which are classed in Dewey, and findable through a shelflist and an author catalog.