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Please note : Since this is a fairly heavy item, that for any non-domestic destinations we must use USPS Priority International , for which there will be required significant extra postage. ************************************** Donald and Mary Hyde created one of the nation's foremost private book collections at their beautiful Four Oaks Farm in New Jersey. The collection, housing an amazing number of rare books , manuscripts and art, is collecting on a grand scale only imaginable in the wildest fancies of most book collectors. Included in the Four Oaks Library are books and manuscripts from Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, James Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, valuable materials from other noteworthy 18th century authors, a collection of 18th century portraits, an Oscar Wilde collection, a collection of rare Japanese books, a George Bernard Shaw collection, a large selection of Elizabethan Books and Early Drama including a special portrait of Shakespeare. there are many fine bindings and curiosities of the binder's art, and a wide ranging collection of valuable autographs. It is such an array as to make one stop in wonder. *********************************************** Offered here is the two volume limited edition set, "Four Oaks Farm" & "Four Oaks Library", edited by Gabriel Austin, and privately published in Somerville, New Jersey. Both volumes were issued in November 1967 : "Four Oaks Farm" in a limited run of 1,000 Copies, and "Four Oaks Library" in a limited run of 1,250 copies. The books were printed on Curtis Rag Paper by Clarke & Way at The Thistle Press. Both volumes are illustrated with photographs printed by the Meridian Gravure Company. (There are also a couple of maps of historical interest to the farm.) The binding was made by The Russell-Rutter Company, and the entire work was designed by P. J. Conkwright. ************************************************** Both volumes, edited by Gabriel Austin, are comprised by a variety of essays by different authors. The "Oak Farm Library" includes a Bibliography. The following is a Table of Contents for the Oak Library volume: THE HYDE COLLECTION -- by Donald and Mary Hyde / SAMUEL JOHNSON -- by Robert Metzdorf / HESTER LYNCH SALUSBURY THRALE PIOZZI -- by James L. Clifford / HENRY FIELDING -- by Hugh Amory / OTHER 18TH CENTURY AUTHORS -- by Robert Metzdorf / 18TH CENTURY PICTURES -- by Geof8frey W. G. Agnew / MISCELLANEOUS AUTOGRAPHS -- by Gabriel Austin / JAPANESE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS -- by Shigeo Sorimachi / OSCAR WILDE -- by H. Montgomery Hyde / GEORGE BERNARD SHAW -- by Dan H. Laurence / ELIZABETHAN BOOKS AND EARLY DRAMA -- by John F. Fleming / ENGLISH AND OTHER BINDINGS -- by Frederick B. Adams, Jr. / OTHER COLLECTIONS -- by Gabriel Austin / THE VISITING SCHOLAR -- by L. F. Powell / BIBLIOGRAPHY -- by Herbert Cahoon ********************************************* Table of Contents for the Oak Farm Volume : HISTORY OF THE PROPERTY -- by Robert M. Lunny & Norman C. Wittmer / THE FARMHOUSE: BEEKMANS-ISELINS-HYDES -- by Mary Hyde / ARCHITECTURAL ADDITIONS -- by Eldridge Snyder / FARM AND GARDEN -- by George Knapp / THE GUEST BOOK-- By Mary Hyde / CHRISTMAS EVE PARTIES -- by Elizabeth K. Hartz / THE FIRST AMERICAN BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR DR. JOHNSON . by Elizabeth Kay / OTHER FESTIVE OCCASIONS -- by Terence Ward, Marc Sanders, and Edward Petersen / FOUR OAKS FOUNDATION -- by Louis Starr ********************************************** TITLE : Four Oaks Farm / Four Oaks Library / AUTHOR : Mary Hyde, et al / EDITOR : Gabriel Austin / IMPRINT : Privately Published / PRINTER : Clarke & Way at the Thistle Press / ILLUSTRATIONS : Meridian Gravure Company / PLACE : Somerville, New Jersey / DATE : November 1967 / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Limited Print Run : "Four Oaks Farm", 1,000 Copies & "four Oaks Library" 1,250 copies; set of 2 encased in a marbled slip-case. / STATUS : OP / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Both volumes have photographic illustrations; "Oak Farm" has a couple of maps. Oak Library has a number o.
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