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A Monument More Durable than Brass: Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson
John Overholt
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Hardback. A catalogue of items drawn from the "Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr Samuel Johnson", bequeathed to the library in 2004 by Mary Hyde Eccles. Num Pages: 130 pages, 50 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 211 x 16. Weight in Grams: 638.
To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), whose influence on his time was as monumental as his legacy is enduring, Harvard University’s Houghton Library presents this exhibition catalogue of items drawn from the Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson, bequeathed to the library in 2004 by Mary Hyde Eccles. This copiously illustrated catalogue documents sixty years of assiduous and painstaking effort on the part of Lady Eccles, initially in collaboration with her first husband, Donald F. Hyde, and later with the encouragement and support of her second husband, David, Viscount Eccles, to assemble ... Read more
To commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), whose influence on his time was as monumental as his legacy is enduring, Harvard University’s Houghton Library presents this exhibition catalogue of items drawn from the Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson, bequeathed to the library in 2004 by Mary Hyde Eccles. This copiously illustrated catalogue documents sixty years of assiduous and painstaking effort on the part of Lady Eccles, initially in collaboration with her first husband, Donald F. Hyde, and later with the encouragement and support of her second husband, David, Viscount Eccles, to assemble ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library United States
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9780981885827
SKU
V9780981885827
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About John Overholt
Thomas A. Horrocks is the author of Lincoln’s Campaign Biographies and former Director of the John Hay Library, Brown University. James Engell is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and co-editor of the Bollingen edition of the Biographia Literaria for the Collected Works of Coleridge.
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