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KENNETEI A. LOHF

Appleton gift. Four works in the history of theatre and drama
have been presented by Professor William W. Appleton (A.iM.,
1940; Ph.D., 1949): Thomas Davies, Dramatic Micellanies [sic^■.
Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shake¬
speare,'London, 1783-1784, 3 volumes; David Garrick, The Poeti¬
cal Works, London, 1785, 2 volumes; The Complete Works of
Thomas Shadwell, London, 1927, one of 90 numbered copies on
Kelmscott handmade paper signed by the editor, Montague Sum¬
mers; Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts,
London [1835], presentation copy inscribed by the author to
Lord Abinger, and with an autograph letter from Talfourd to the
Earl of Lichfield tipped in; and Thomas Wade, The Jew of Arra-
g07i; or, the Hebrew Queen: A Tragedy, London, 1830, in the
original printed wrappers, and with an autograph letter from the
author's son-in-law, W. J. Linton, regarding Wade's writings,
laid in.

Boardman gift. Eighty-two works primarily in the fields of pub¬
lishing and printing have been donated by Mr. Eon W. Boardman,
Jr. (A.B., 1934), including John Dreyfus, Bruce Rogers and
American Typography, New York, 1959, one of three hundred
copies printed in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the es¬
tablishment of the American Branch of the Cambridge University
Press; Horace Hart, Notes on a Century of Typography at the
University Press, Oxford, i6<)^-ij^^, Oxford, 1970, with intro¬
duction and notes by Harry Carter; and Stanley Morison, John
Fell: The University Press and the "Fell" Types, Oxford, 1967,
one of one thousand copies printed on rag paper direct from the
type cast in Fell's matrices.

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