[Rarebooks] Nicholas Sever Manuscript Biography (1930)

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

O'Reilly, Noel Sever. NICHOLAS SEVER. A BIOGRAPHY.

Cambridge; 1930.

As far as we can tell a unique item- a manuscript biography of Nicholas
Sever which mentions and lists his silver at Harvard, written by a
descendant while he himself was an undergraduate at Harvard! On page 23 of
this biography O'Reilly recounts that it was the tradition for Harvard
students to give departing faculty members pieces of plate, and he lists
these, along with a (very faded) photo of two pieces. Sever's 11 pieces of
silver, mostly by John Burt, stayed in the family and were exhibited at
the Fogg Museum at Harvard in 1931, as described in Richard Walden Hale's
scarce little catalog of that year. A search of OCLC locates no printed
copies of this manuscript, and we are left with the tentative, if
inescapable, conclusion that this may be the only copy in existence.

Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 57 typescript pages, typed one side only; plus 11
photographic prints, all bound into green buckram covers with gilt title.
A little soil, pages browned, photos faded. [04855] $300.00


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