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It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200

October 12, 2018 through January 27, 2019

Commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of Frankenstein—a classic of world literature and a masterpiece of horror—a new exhibition at the Morgan shows how Mary Shelley created a monster.

Zir Ganela Gospels (MS M.828)

Ethiopia, 1400–1401, MS M.828

Digital Facsimile

An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling. The annals of horsemanship: containing accounts of accidental experiments and experimental accidents, both successful and unsuccessful; / communicated by various correspondents to the author, Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [pseud.] ...; illustrated with cuts, by the most eminent artists ...

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.

London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe [etc.] by W. Wilson, 1808.

PML 9451

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Book

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Printed Books

An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers, & c., with some proposals for remedying this growing evil : In which the present reigning vices are impartially exposed; and the laws that relate to the provision for the poor, and to the punishment of felons are largely and freely examined / By Henry Fielding, esq.

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

London : Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

PML 8483

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Book

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Printed Books

An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers, & c., with some proposals for remedying this growing evil. : In which the present reigning vices are impartially exposed ; and the laws that relate to the provision for the poor, and to the punishment of felons are largely and freely examined. / By Henry Fielding, esq.

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

London : Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

PML 16404

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Book

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Printed Books

Agreements (15) For the publication of "Reports of Cases argued and Adjusted in the Supreme Court ...," Vol. I-XII, and for "A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court ... from ... 1789" : autograph manuscript signed and manuscript signed all by Henry Wheaton and publishers : New York, 1816 June 7-1827 June 23.

Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848.

1816 June 7-1827 June 23.

MA 995

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Edwin and Henry, or, The week's holidays : containing original, moral, and instructive tales, for the improvement of youth : to which is added, a hymn for the morning and evening of every day in the week / by Robert Huish ; neatly embellished with all the original engravings on wood, by Mr. Branston, from the designs of Mr. Brook.

Huish, Robert, 1777-1850.

London : Printed in stereotypes, for D. Mackay, [1818] ([London?] : Harvey, printer)

PML 82969

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Book

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Printed Books

Robin Hood's progress to Nottingham, where he met with fifteen forresters all on a row, and he desired of them some news to know; and with cross-grain'd words they did him thwart, for which at last he made them for to smart. To the tune of, Robin Hood, &c. Licensed and entered according to order.

London : printed by and for W. O[nley]. for A. M[ilbourn]. and sold by the booksellers of Pye-corner and London bridge, [between 1693 and 1695?]

PML 3469.7

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Broadside

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Printed Books

Justice and Fortitude Flanking the Arms of Pope Clement VIII

Cherubino Alberti

1553-1615

1979.12

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Virgilius post omnes omnium editiones accurate emendatus.

Virgil.

Venetiis : Apud Aldi Filios, M.D.XLV [1545].

PML 1665.1

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Book

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Printed Books