Includes reviews of books by or about Proust, Kafka, Angus Wilson, Thomas Mann, John Steinbeck, Henry Williamson, George Barker, John Cowper Powys, Gide, Malraux, Sartre, Auden, Rimbaud, Joyce Cary, Matthew Arnold, Anatole France, Montesquiou. The majority of the reviews are from The Listener an...
George D. Painter's papers relating to François-René de Chateaubriand
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Includes: an autograph letter by Chateaubriand [no year], purchased by Painter in 1970; correspondence with the Société Chateuabriand and the French Embassy in London relating to a proposal to site a blue plaque on a building occupied by Chateuabriand in London; correspondence of Painter and Pie...
Includes: galley proof of Painter's The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. An introduction on the dream, the dreamer, the artist, and the printer (London: Eugrammia Press, 1963); a prospectus for the Eugrammia Press's 1964 collotype facsimile of Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Apocalypse; a copy of Le d...