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David N. Carvalho, who lived in New York City, solved crime cases through his expertise in ink and handwriting. Carvalho contends that his Forty Centuries of Ink, or a Chronological Narrative Concerning Ink and Its Background is the first extensive work on the history of ink (iii-iv)
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Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 – 24 May 1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print. Charlotte Mary Yonge was born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, on 11 August 1823 to William Yonge and Fanny Yonge, née Bargus.
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Johanna Spyri (German: [joˈhana ˈʃpiːri]; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss-born author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi.
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A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c.
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An Account of Arnold du Tilh, an Impostor, who deceived a Man's Wife and Relations, and puzzled, for a long Time, the Parliament of France. Memoirs of the famous Madam de Brinvilliers, who poisoned her Father, and two Brothers, and attempted the Life of her Sister, &c.
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Blanche McManus (1869–1935)[1] was an American writer and artist.he and her husband, Milburg Francisco Mansfield, wrote a series of illustrated travel books, many of which contained automobiles which were new at the time. She was born in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana in ... Read more...
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William Dana Orcutt was an important book and typeface designer in Boston, an important printmaking and bookmaking center, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Orcutt graduated from Harvard University in 1892,[1] and subsequently worked for John Wilson, propr... Read more...
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George Coffey (1857–1916) was a scholar of Irish history and cultural revivalist.
Coffey was a bookbinder, archaeologist, and the first keeper of antiquities at the National Museum of Ireland. He was associated with the cultural revival movement and Douglas Hyde's Gaelic L... Read more...
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There is an inborn love of the antique in most men, although some are fond of asserting that their interests are bound up in the modern, and that they have no time to devote to the study of the antiquities of past ages or the things that were fashionable in times long past.
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Gerard Fowke (June 25, 1855 – March 5, 1933) was an American archeologist and geologist best known for his studies of Native American mounds.
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A Chronicle of Great Interpreters
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Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts and was educated at Williams College, Williamstown, as well as the universities of Berlin and Strasbourg.[1]
Perry taught at Williams from 1886 until 1893. He then taught at Princeton University, where he became acquainted with... Read more...
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