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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS EXHIBITION FOCUSING ON THE CONTROVERSIAL SHAKESPEARE PORTRAIT QUESTION

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

When the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon- Avon unveiled a previously unidentified portrait with strong claims to be the only surviving contemporary likeness of William Shakespeare (1564–1616), it created an international stir.

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Fran Lebowitz: Reflections on Austen

Fran Lebowitz is the best-selling author of Metropolitan Life, Social Studies, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. Lebowitz has made a number of appearances as Judge Janice Goldberg on the television drama Law & Order, and has appe

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Church-government and church-covenant discussed, : in an answer of the elders of the severall churches in New England to two and thirty questions, sent over to them by divers ministers in England, to declare their judgments therein. : Together with an Apologie of the said elders in New-England for church-covenant, sent over in answer to Master Bernard in the yeare 1639. : As also in an answer to nine positions about church-government. : And now published for the satisfaction of all who desire resolution in those points.

Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.

London : Printed by R[ichard] O[ulton] and G[regory] D[exter] for Benjamin Allen and are to be sold at his shop in Popeshead-Ally, 1643.

PML 19487

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The doctrine of the law and grace unfolded, or, A discourse touching the law and grace : the nature of the one and the nature of the other, shewing what they are as they are the two covenants ... wherein for the better understanding of the reader there is several questions answered touching the law and grace ... : also several titles set over the several truths contained in this book, for thy sooner finding of them, which are those following the epistle / published by that poor and contemptible creature, John Bunyan of Bedford.

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.

London : Printed for Nath. Ponder ..., 1685.

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A form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God, for his late merciful preservation of the King's Majesty from the outrageous and desperate attmepts against his person, as he passed to the Parliament House, on Thursday the twenty-ninth day of October : to be used at morning and evening service, after the general thanksgiving, in all churches and chapels throughout England and Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed, on the first Sunday after the ministers thereof shall receive the same, and to be continued for fourteen days afterwards.

London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1795.

PML 16032.4

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New principles of gardening, or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. : after a more grand and rural manner than has been done before : with experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens and flowering-shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd : to which is added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general ... / by Batty Langley.

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley, 1728.

PML 55626

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Concerning persecution in all ages to this day : and he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born of the Spirit : and even so it is now, yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution : mark, all them that will live godly, not them that will live ungodly, out of Christ Jesus, 2 Tim. 3.12. : for unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ... / G. Fox.

Fox, George, 1624-1691.

London : Printed by John Bringhurst ..., 1682.

PML 12948

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Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, / executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings ; to which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print, together with the names of those for whom, and of the places for which the original pictures were first painted, (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain himself on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.

Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822.

In Cheapside, London : Published by the proprietor, John Boydell, engraver, [1777]-1819.

PML 11737-39

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Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints after the original designs of Claude le Lorrain in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, / executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings ; to which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print, together with the names of those for whom, and of the places for which the original pictures were first painted, (taken from the hand-writing of Claude le Lorrain himself on the back of each drawing) and of the present possessors of many of the original pictures.

Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822.

In Cheapside, London : Published by the proprietor, John Boydell, engraver, [1777]-1819.

PML 11740-42

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Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the foure yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie : wherin are truly obserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portuguese by Richard Haklvyt.

At London : Printed by Felix Kyngston for Matthew Lownes, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in Pauls Churchyard, 1609.

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