The Souvenir Volume 1

Today Magazine - The New John Bull, 14 May 1960, Volume 1, No. 12 *PRINCESS MARGARET'S WEDDING PHOTOS* London Today 1960 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.
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46 pages. Special wedding souvenir - presentation 14" x 18" colour centerfold. Putting on the Style, by Tom Hutchinson; TV Violence and its effects on Children - a look at the horror in our homes; The Olympics - why aren't we good enough?; "These men believe they are a chosen race" - a South African storey; Assignment to Kill - serial version of the dramatic book by Alan Burgess; Princess Margaret's wedding photos; The Breaker, by Philip M. Jones; Wells Fargo Rides Again! - but this time the trail is the city - and the new boss is Sillitoe, once the chief of M.I.5; Mistake that Spawned Murder - today serial - Night Without End by Alistair Maclean; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. First Edition Stapled Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; First Edition

[SW: Today Magazine - The New John Bull, 14 May 1960, Volume 1, No. 12 *PRINCESS MARGARET'S WEDDING PHOTOS* Special wedding souvenir - presentation 14" x 18" colour centerfold. Putting on the Style, by Tom Hutchinson; TV Violence and its effects on Children - a look at the horror in our homes; The Olympics - why aren't we good enough?; "These men believe they are a chosen race" - a South African storey; Assignment to Kill - serial version of the dramatic book by Alan Burgess; Princess Margaret's wedding photos; The Breaker, by Philip M. Jones; Wells Fargo Rides Again! - but this time the trail is the city - and the new boss is Sillitoe, once the chief of M.I.5; Mistake that Spawned Murder - today serial - Night Without End by Alistair Maclean]

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Disciplina Monastica: DM 4 (FONTES 1), J. Dalarun, G. Giordanengo, A. Le Huerou, J. Longere, D. Poirel, B. L. Venarde, Les deux vies de Robert d'Arbrissel, fondateur de Fontevraud. Legendes, ecrits et temoignages, Brepols ISBN: 2-503-52419-1
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Disciplina Monastica DM 4 (FONTES 1) J. Dalarun, G. Giordanengo, A. Le Huerou, J. Longere, D. Poirel, B. L. Venarde Les deux vies de Robert d'Arbrissel, fondateur de Fontevraud. Legendes, ecrits et temoignages The Two Lives of Robert of Arbrissel, Founder of Fontevraud. Legends, Writings, and Testimonies 772 p., 20 b/w ill.+3 colour ill., 210 x 270 mm, 2007, Paperback ISBN 978-2-503-52419-1, EUR 150.00 Disponible/Available English Text: The multifaceted Robert of Arbrissel (ca. 1045-1116) is best remembered as the founder of Fontevraud, a monastery of men and women under the direction of an abbess. A restless nonconformist, Robert was both famous and infamous in his own lifetime and has been a subject of debate ever since. In this book an international team of scholars - Jacques Dalarun, Genevieve Giordanengo, Armelle Le Huerou, Jean Longere, Dominique Poirel, and Bruce L. Venarde - present all known medieval sources concerning Robert of Arbrissel. The authors have created critical editions of materials including hagiography, correspondence, statutes, charters, and various short texts in verse and prose illustrating Robert's life and memory. To facilitate broad access to these materials, the entire dossier is translated into French and English. The authors' purpose, then, is not to offer the last word on Robert of Arbrissel, but to make available in one volume the materials that will promote further research and new interpretations of this controversial medieval Christian. French Text: Fils de pretre, cure du village breton d'Arbrissel, archipretre du diocese de Rennes, ermite en foret de Craon, engage dans la fondation de la communaute de chanoines de La Roe, predicateur itinerant, Robert d'Arbrissel est surtout celebre pour avoir fonde a Fontevraud, en 1101, un monastere d'hommes et de femmes dont il decida, en 1115, de confier la direction a une abbesse. Ce personnage exceptionnel, symbole conteste de la reforme societale et ecclesiale du tournant des xie et xiie siecles, a ete l'objet des plus vifs debats historiographiques. Pourtant, les sources qui nous informent de son parcours n'etaient pour la plupart connues, sur des bases incertaines, que par des editions du xviie siecles et elles n'avaient jamais ete assemblees en un volume. Reparties en trois sections - Legendes, Ecrits, Temoignages -, toutes les pieces repertoriees sur Robert d'Arbrissel sont ici presentees, editees, annotees et simultanement traduites en francais et en anglais : ses deux Vies, l'une due a Baudri de Bourgueil, l'autre au frere Andre, et le bref miracle de Rouen ; les statuts originaux qu'il edicta pour Fontevraud, son exhortation a la comtesse Ermengarde de Bretagne, les chartes qui furent redigees en son nom ; les lettres critiques que Marbode de Rennes et Geoffroy de Vendome lui adresserent, le poeme que lui dedia Galon de Leon apres sa mort, les nombreuses mentions qui temoignent de sa vie puis de son souvenir. Suit la bibliographie internationale des etudes qui lui furent consacrees. Les auteurs du present volume de la collection Disciplina monastica - Jacques Dalarun, Genevieve Giordanengo, Armelle Le Huerou, Jean Longere, Dominique Poirel, Bruce L. Venarde - n'ont pas l'ambition de produire une nouvelle monographie sur le fondateur de Fontevraud, ni d'ecrire le fin mot de cette histoire. Par ce recueil aussi exhaustif que possible, passe au crible de l'erudition critique, concu et realise dans une perspective resolument internationale, ils esperent offrir a chacun l'occasion de renouveler, sur des bases solides, la connaissance et la comprehension de Robert d'Arbrissel ; un homme que ses contemporains ont admire, aime, parfois desapprouve, mais qui ne les laissa jamais indifferents. Review: "Jacques Dalarun et ses collaborateurs ont dresse la un monument a la gloire de Robert d'Arbrissel, et l'on aimerait bien que d'autres saints des XIe-XIIe siecles beneficient d'un tel traitement. Ajoutons que le soin qui a ete deploye dans la mise en page et la typographie en fait meme ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler un "beau livre", chose rare dans ce genre de litterature." (J.-L. Lemaitre, Revue d'Histoire de l'eglise de France, t. 93, 2007, p. 584) "Cette magnifique edition constitue un modele a suivre pour d'autres dossiers hagiographiques. Elle aurait eu sa place dans une nova series des Acta Sanctorum." (R. Godding dans Analecta Bollandiana, t. 126, 2008, p. 205) "This remarkable international collaborative effort makes available in a single elegantly produced volume the entire corpus of materials relating to Robert's life and work. (...) painstaking editions of texts ... combined with Bruce Venarde's graceful English translations." (J. M. B. Porter, Speculum, 83, October 2008, p. 974-975)

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SMYTH, John Richard Coke (1808-1882): A pair of albums, each titled "Sketches of Costume by Coke Smyth", containing original watercolours: the artwork for an unpublished work which was to have been entitled "The Costume of the principal Nations of Europe from the beginning of the 13th to the end of the 17th century"

[N.p. but London]: [1835-]1842. 2 volumes, quarto. (11 3/4 x 1'0 3/4 inches). 2 ink manuscript titles "Sketches of Costume by Coke Smyth 1842", 125 card leaves on cloth guards, with 125 tipped-on original pencil and watercolour drawings by Smyth (sheet sizes approx. 8 7/8 x 7 7/16 inches, mounted recto only, one drawing per card leaf), all with integral pencilled captions beneath, three with additional manuscript notes in pencil by Queen Victoria, with 1 additional leaf (9 3/4 x 11 inches) with original pencil sketches by Prince Albert (including a recognisable self-portrait of Albert in medieval costume) mounted at the back of one volume. Contemporary green morocco bound for "P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Pall Mall East", covers bordered with fillets in gilt and blind, elaborate corner-tooling in blind, spine in six compartments with semi-raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt fillets and small arabesque tools, the compartments bordered in gilt and blind with fillets, gilt turn-ins, cream-glazed endpapers. An important re-discovery: two albums of watercolours by one of great early painters of the Canadian scene. Coke Smyth's connections to the Governor of Canada and his family are probably what led to him showing Queen Victoria and her Consort, Prince Albert, the present albums. The Royal couple were planning a bal costume, or fancy-dress ball, with an historical theme and clearly looked through the albums searching for inspiration. The Queen appears to have particularly liked two of Coke Smyth's drawings and marked them as possible patterns for her and her husband's costume. Prince Albert seems to have had his own ideas, which he sketched out on the sheet bound at the back of one of the albums. In the event, the ball took place at Buckingham Palace on 12th May 1842, and Coke Smyth was encouraged to record the costumes, a selection of which were published in James Robinson Planche's Souvenir of the Bal Costume, given by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace, May 12, 1842 The drawings from the original dresses by Mr. Coke Smyth ; the descriptive letterpress by J.R. Planche. (London : Printed by William Nicol, Shakespeare Press, for P. and D. Colnaghi, 1843). A folio, this very rare work included a coloured title and 52 coloured plates and evidently enjoyed enough success to encourage Coke Smyth to attempt to publish a further work on a similar theme, using the drawings in the present albums as the artwork. In conjunction with Colnaghi's he went ahead and issued a prospectus, but a lack of subscribers meant that the scheme was not taken any further, and the present albums remain the only pictorial record of what might have been. There is a further particularly interesting facet to these albums: in addition to the 103 drawings that are obvious candidates for inclusion in a work on historical costume, there is also a significant selection of 22 drawings that are of contemporary costume as worn in Italy, Greece and the Turkish Empire. These appear to have been drawn from life and would therefore have been drawn by Coke Smyth during his journey to and stay in Constantinople. According W. Martha E. Cooke's entry in the catalogue of the W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana, John Richard Coke Smyth was born in 1808 "the only son of Richard Smyth and Elizabeth Coke (c.l777-c. 1851) ... More commonly known as Coke Smyth, with which name he signed his works ... Smyth's passport, still in the family's possession, would suggest that he was a gentleman of means who travelled widely on the Continent ... In 1835-6, Smyth visited Constantinople .... His on-the-spot sketches were published in Illustrations of Constantinople made in the Years 1835-6 (London, 1837), which comprised 26 lithographic views arranged and drawn on stone by John Frederick Lewis ... Subsequently he was engaged as drawing master to the household of John George Lambton (1792-1840), 1st Earl of Durham. It was in this capacity in April 1838 that Smyth accompanied Durham, newly appointed Governor to the Canadas, and his party on board HMS Hastings. During Durham's brief tenure of office, which terminated with his resignation that October, he travelled extensively in Lower and Upper Canada. Thus there was ample opportunity for Smyth ... to sketch firsthand the Canadian scene at the time of the Mackenzie-Papineau Rebellions. ... Several of these drawings provided the basis for the 23 lithographic views dedicated to the Earl of Durham in Sketches in the Canadas (London, c.1840) by Coke Smyth. Smyth exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1842 and 1855 and also at the British Institution and Society of British Artists up to 1867. In 1842, Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi exhibited and later published Smyth's costume figures which were commissioned by Queen Victoria to illustrate a commemorative volume of the Queen's masked ball en-titled Souvenir of the Bal Costume (London; 1843). Several of the drawings used for the lithographic plates are in an album in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Smyth specialized in costume studies. He approached Colnaghi with a view to publication of an album ... [for which he issued a ] Prospectus & Specimen of a proposed work on the Costume of the principal Nations of Europe from the beginning of the 13th to the end of the 17th century. Smyth intended to etch the plates personally and provide accompanying text; however, it appears that the number of subscribers was insufficient to publish the work. Smyth is known to have experimented in lithography, and produced a self-portrait among his associates at drawing class. He also painted portraits of his family and made some fine architectural drawings. One of the latest known books to include his illustrations was Henry Beveridge's A Comprehensive History of India.(London, 1871). Coke Smyth died in 1882." Substantial collections of Coke Smyths work are very rare, however individual examples can be seen in the Public Archives of Canada (Ottawa); the John Ross Robertson Collection in the Metropolitan Toronto Central Library; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Cf. Abbey Travel II, 394 and 625; cf. Allodi Canadian Watercolours II, 1532-1583; cf. Benezit (2006) XII, p.1395; cf. Bobins I, 66; cf. Colas II, 2403; cf. W.H. Coverdale Collection of Canadiana: Paintings, Water-colours and Drawings (Ottawa: 1983), p.189; cf. Lande 2215; cf. Staton & Tremaine 2549; cf. Thieme-Becker 31, p.185.

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Souvenir Volume of the Centennial Celebration and Catholic Congress, 1789 - 1889, Detroit, MI William H. Hughes, Publisher 1889 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
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Top 1 " of the spine is quite worn, otherwise just light edgewear. Pale green cover is gilt-embossed. SCARCE copy of this Souvenir Volume, illustrated, and with stories of "Three Great Events in the History of the Catholic Church in the United States". Also includes the proceedings of the First American Catholic Congress and a dedication of the Catholic University. First Edition Hard Cover Minimally Marked Ex-Library; First Edition

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