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A variety of items printed on the in-house presses of St. John the Evangelist church, Limehouse, London. The church was destroyed on September 19, 1940, near the beginning of the Blitz.

An installment of a melodrama by Frederic Gerrish, the 8-year-old editor of The Lantern of Portland, Maine, 1853.

or rather, the Dog-shaped papier-mâché bookshelf blog entry. A true gem of an item from the Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection, highlighted by expert cataloger, Ellen Ellickson, who describes the object more completely, below.  Author:            Martin, John, 1865-1947. Title:             The read out loud books Published:         New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, c1911.

An image of John Law as Don Quixote, from the volume: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Amsterdam, 1720, the focus of a conference to be held at Yale University, April 17-19, 2008: http://icf.som.yale.edu/GREAT_MIRROR/