[Rarebooks] FS: Winship inscribed by A.S.W. Rosenbach

[Nina W. Matheson]

  For consideration today:

Winship, George Parker.   Printing in the Fifteenth Century.  Philadelphia, 
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940. Original red cloth. Lower front 
corner bumped, backstrip lightly faded, otherwise very good, without dust 
jacket. 158 pp. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Elizabeth Mongan / 
with the warm regards and best wishes of A. S. W. Rosenbach / December 20, 
1940". It would be natural for Rosenbach who had in Lessing J. Rosenwald 
such a good customer to inscribe a book to Rosenwald's first curator who 
played such an important role in developing the collection. In her 1989 
National Gallery of Art oral history interview she says of Rosenbach: "The 
Doctor, as everybody called him, certainly had the most important influence 
on Lessing of anybody at all". A Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography 
publication.  $200

and an associated item:

To Doctor R.  Essays here collected and published in honor of the 
Seventieth Birthday of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, July 22, 
1946.  Philadelphia, 1946. Original red cloth. Pencilled ownership 
signature of Elizabeth Mongan on the front free endpaper. Lettering on the 
backstrip faded, upper rear corner bumped, otherwise solid, very good. 
Except for a few essays, largely unopened. Includes an amazing assemblage 
of distinguished names: Randolph G. Adams, Clarence S. Brigham, Curt F. 
Buehler, Mary Hyde, William A. Jackson, Donald G. Wing, Lawrence C. Wroth, 
Edwin Wolf, etc., etc. Includes "A bibliography of the book, contributions 
and articles written by A. S. W. Rosenbach" by John Fleming. Illustrated. 
Frontispiece photograph of Dr. Rosenbach. 301 pp. Card of Philip H. 
Rosenbach, laid in. In her position as Lessing Rosenwald's curator 
Elizabeth Mongan was a natural recipient of a copy of a book honoring 
Philip's brother. $150.00

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