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Gifts of Genius: Treasures of the Huntington Library
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Huntington Library Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0873281101
ISBN 13: 9780873281102
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket as Issued. In Very Good+ condition. With illustrations throughout. Includes a discussion and introduction to The Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Gutenberg Bible, William Shakespeare at the Huntington, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, William Blake, Audubon and the Birds of America, Thoreau's Walden, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and Conrad Aiken. The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th century European art and 17th to mid-20th century American art. James Thorpe (1915 - 2009) was the director of the Huntington Library, and a professor of English at Princeton University. He was the author of a biography of the library namesake, Henry Edwards Huntington. He was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1949 and 1965. In 1976, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was later elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1982. Seller Inventory # SKU2010030904
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Gifts of Genius Treasures of the Huntington Library
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ISBN 10: 0873281101
ISBN 13: 9780873281102
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Gifts of a Genius. Treasures of the Huntington Library.
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Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, University of California Press. 1980, 1980
ISBN 10: 0873281101
ISBN 13: 9780873281102
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Original publisher's brown cloth spine, gilt lettering spine, pictorial front- & backcover, 8vo: 214pp., very richly illustrated, table of contents. Fine copy. Edwards Huntington legendary bookcollector & founder of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Seller Inventory # 533980
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