books about: facsimile     books:       Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition2 reviews Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Elizabeth Miller McFarland, 2008 Magnificent, an obvious labor of love... Robert Eighteen-Bisang has spent an extraordinary life devoted to vampire lore and especially to Dracula. Now, he and Elizabeth Miller, in a beautifully produced volume, annotate and transcribe Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula. This book is a must-have for anyone interested in this seminal work of fiction and in how novels are put together. Bravo!             The Book of Beasts: A Facsimile of MS. Bodley 764 Bodleian Library, 2008 In the Middle Ages, people believed that studying animals allowed them to read the Divine Order as written in the natural world. In image and word, medieval bestiaries illustrated beasts in stunning detail and explained their scientific nature as well as their allegorical significance.This bestiary, dating from the mid-13th century and preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford since the early 17th century, is one of the finest and most ...             Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with ...1 review Allen Ginsberg Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Essential for Ginsberg Fans and Spontaneous Writers Afraid of Revision Considering Ginsberg embraced Kerouac's "First thought, best thought," motto, Howl's 50th anniversary edition, which includes many photocopied pages of handwritten and typed revisions, proves Ginsberg did plenty of revisiting and change to those first thoughts. Choosing better, more musical adjectives, adding to and shaping his images to enhance the mental scenery, and the great big cross-outs in ...             The Holkham Bible: A Facsimile1 review Michelle P. Brown British Library, 2007 Fine facsimile I really am grateful I bought this facsimile of the Holkham Bible. This very affordable copy lets the average man enjoy the famed picture Bible right at the very comfort of his own home. The pages resemble the vellum used in the original and the color reproduction is no less inferior. Added to it the commentaries are erudite and excellent and will guide you to the picture Bible page by page ...             On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition14 reviews Charles Darwin Wildside Press, 2003 Interesting, but the third edition is recommended Charles Darwin rushed his Origin to press when he became aware that he would be pre-empted with the theory of natural selection by Alfred Russell Wallace. In the course of the following few years he reviewed the manuscript thorougly at least twice. The Third edition is generally the standard. This facsimilie may be interesting for historical reasons, but I recommend the edition with Jilian ...             The Complete Illustrated Strand Sherlock HOlmes. The Complete Facsimile Edition. (Sherlock Holmes) Marboro Books Corp. a Div. of Barnes & N, 1990 All the Sherlock Holmes adventures with all the original illustrations, reproduced in facsimile from the pages of the famous 'Strand' magazine as they first appeared- together with the very first two stories introducing the mysterious and inscrutable character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Publication date not given. Maybe 1990 as stated.             The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound5 reviews T. S. Eliot Harvest Books, 1974 Waste Land born by "Caesarian Operation", and mystery solved Valerie Eliot's publication of her late husband's Waste Land manuscripts affords the reader an opportunity to delve beneath the mysteries surrounding this truly remarkable poem. Hailed as the "greatest poem of the 20th century", a masterpiece which "captured the disillusionment of a generation"; indeed, as the "justification" of Ezra Pound's modernist "experiment", yet referred to by Eliot, ...             Original Illustrated Strand Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Facsimile Edition Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle Diane Pub Co, 1989 The ascetic, gaunt & enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary & pioneering Strand Magazine began serializing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal & lovably pedantic friend & companion, Dr. Watson. The stories are illustrated by the ...             Trimalchio by F. Scott Fitzerald: A Facsimile Edition of the Original Galley Proofs for the Great Gatsby2 reviews University of South Carolina Press, 2000 So happy I own it! Yes, I agree with the previous reviewer that this is a collectible, and not the version of "The Great Gatsby" to buy in order to read. But I am one of the Gatsby and Fitzerald junkies who wanted this, badly, the moment I heard it was going to be released. It is, though, even if you do want to read it, so fragile (the material its pages are made of) and unwieldy that it's nearly frightening - I ...             The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson: A Facsimile Edition1 review Emily Dickinson Belknap Press, 1981 A jewel for the collection of all Dickinson enthusiasts. THE MANUSCRIPT BOOKS OF EMILY DICKINSON. Edited by R. W. Franklin. 2 vols, 1442 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. ISBN 0-674-54828-0 (hbk.) What do we mean when we speak of "an Emily Dickinson poem" ? If you think about it, we could mean one of at least five different things. We may be referring : (1) to her poems as they ...             Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and ...51 reviews Sylvia Plath HarperCollins, 2004 Plath and motherhood It seems every morbid well read teenage girl would carry a Sylvia Plath book around school, and I was one of them (I can't speak for the current Extreme Makeover, American Idol, online porn generation) Although I struck the Plath pose in high school, in all honesty I didn't really understand and appreciate her until my late thirties after I was married and had children. As a stay at home ...             The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 17964 reviews Amelia Simmons Dover Publications, 1984 The First American Cookbook written by a woman In 1796, a young lady named Amelia Simmons published her cookbook. While other cookbooks had been printed, they were just reprints of European works. All had been written by men for men. At the time, no cookbook dealt so well with the unique food ingredients available in America. So, this was the first cookbook slanted towards female cooks and is the first book to show corn meal as a primary ...             A Study Guide to the Facsimiles of the Book of Abraham- LDS Nonfiction- Shows the Meaning of Every Character ... Allen J. Fletcher, 2006 Many readers of the Pearl of Great Price give the facsimiles in the book of Abraham only a cursory glance before turning to something more familiar and understandable. Thats because the facsimiles are Egyptian in nature and do not seem relevant in our modern world of gospel enlightenment. So what is their worth? It is self-evident that we have received no useless and unneeded revelations, said Elder Bruce R. McConkie. All that the Lord does has ...             The New Ellesmere Chaucer Monochromatic Facsimile Martin Stevens Huntington Library Press, 1996 The Ellesmere Manuscript is the most complete, authentic version of the Canterbury Tales and the most famous literary treasure in the Huntington Library's collections. The manuscript's 464 text pages are embellished with floriated borders, illuminated initials and other decorations, and twenty-three illustrations of the pilgrim-storytellers. In 1995, the Huntington Library and the Yushodo Co., Ltd., of Japan produced a color facsimile of this ...              search for books american, annotated, annotations, arrangement, character, classics, complete, comprehend, contemporaneous, cookbook, correspondence, dickinson, ellesmere, facsimile, facsimiles, fitzerald, illustrated, including, manuscript, monochromatic, nonfiction, original, perennial, reinstating, restored, selection, sherlock, transcript, trimalchio, versions books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen apparel: Champion PowerBack Wire-Free Style # 1693 home  impressum - about us