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Anna Mary Howitt

The younger group with whom Howitt became associated were the Langham Place feminists, notably her close friend the artist Barbara Leigh Smith, along with whom she joined Rossetti's Folio Club.

Anselmo Banduri

In 1718 he published, also at Paris, two folio volumes on the imperial coinage from Trajan to the last of the Palaeologi (98-1453), Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum a Trajano Decio usque ad Palaeologos Augustos (supplement by Tanini, Rome, 1791).

Aston Cockayne

Cockayne's Small Poems collection of 1658 included verses to Humphrey Moseley, publisher of the 1647 Beaumont and Fletcher folio.

Banner Repeater

There are thousands of contributions from many different independent publishers, and self-publishing artists such as: Book Works, Matt's Gallery, MOT gallery, Chelsea Space, Vilma Gold, Four Corners Books, IMT Gallery, FormContent, n.ow.here, Gagarin, Gandt, Use this Kind of Sky, MONO, Monaco, the paper, Lubok Verlag, the Happy Hypocrite, MOUSSE, Hatos Press, Woodmill studios, David Garcia studios, Ambit, FOLIO, the Semina series, the Institute of Social Hypocrisy.

Carl Tersmeden

He also wrote lengthy memoirs under the title Lefnadsjournaler, which finally totalled some 11,000 folio pages and are often detailed descriptions of society, his own deeds, naval battles and the performance of the Gustafs skål on revolution-night, 19 August 1772, in honour of Gustav III of Sweden.

Codex Floriacensis

According to the inscription on folio 130 it belonged in the 11th century to the famous Benedictine Abbey of Fleury on the Loire (hence name of the codex).

Earl Fuller

The collection was available both as a piano folio and as a set of orchestral parts arranged by Harry L. Alford, whom Fuller brought out from Chicago to make the arrangements; among other pieces in the collection were early works composed by future bandleaders Lou Gold and Irving Aaronson.

Edward Blount

Though best remembered for the First Folio, Blount also published works by Miguel de Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, William Camden, José de Acosta and other important authors.

Elector Bible

The Elector Bible is a German language folio-sized, Martin Luther translation of the new and old testament of the Bible that was authorized by Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and printed by Wolfgang Endterin in Nuremberg, Germany from 1641 to 1758.

Elizabeth Germain

These gems were described in two folio volumes entitled Gemmarum antiquarum delectus quse in dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur, 1781-90; the engravings were chiefly by Bartolozzi, and the Latin text by Jacob Bryant and William Cole (1753-1806)

Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara

Among the works he is known to have copied is a 230 folio collection of farmans isssued by the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb (1068–1118/1658–1707) which he completed in Jalalabad in 1312/1894; the divan of Šehab-e Torshizi, a late 18th century poet from Herat; and Risala-ye fiuz, a treatise on explosives.

George Bull

The Latin works were collected and edited by John Ernest Grabe in 1703, with a preface and annotations by the editor, in one volume folio.

George Garrard

In 1800 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and in the same year he published a folio volume with coloured plates, entitled "A Description of the different varieties of Oxen common in the British Isles, embellished with engravings; being an accompaniment to a set of models of the improved breeds of Cattle, executed by George Garrard, upon an exact scale from nature, under the patronage of the Board of Agriculture" (or "Prints of improved British Cattle").

Giulio Bartolocci

This work appeared in four folio volumes, 1675-1693, three of which were published by the author and the fourth by Carlo Giuseppe Imbonati, his disciple.

Glenmasan manuscript

William Campbell, Robert's probable great-nephew and minister of Kilchrenan (since 1745) and Dalavich, is named on folio 15 as having been the one-time owner of the book and so may have acquired it through his grand-uncle.

Guillaume du Vair

Du Vair died at Tonneins, and his works were published in folio at Paris in 1641.

Jacob Tonson

Tonson published editions of John Dryden and John Milton, and is best known for having obtained a copyright on the plays of William Shakespeare by buying up the rights of the heirs of the publisher of the Fourth Folio after the Statute of Anne went into effect.

James Pattison Cockburn

They include A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, with 30 coloured plates, published in 1815; Swiss Scenery, with 62 plates, in 1820; The Route of the Simplon, in 1822; The Valley of Aosta, in 1823 and Pompeii Illustrated, in folio, in 1827.

John Thorpe

Little is known of his life, and his work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a folio of drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum, to which Horace Walpole called attention, in 1780, in his Anecdotes of Painting; but how far these were his own is uncertain.

Juliana Berners

Joseph Haslewood, who published a facsimile of that of Wynkyn de Worde (London, 1811, folio) with a biographical and bibliographical notice, examined with the greatest care the author's claims to figure as the earliest woman author in the English language.

Laslett

A 1586 legal deposition by Roger Lacelett (Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury Deposition Register PRC 39/11 folio 176 verso) records that the Laslett family migrated from Nantwich in Cheshire in the mid 1540s and took up the Parsonage Farm at Harbledown.

Lectionary 2005

The codex was divided, and now two of its folios are located at the Byzantine Museum (Frg. 42) in Athens, 1 folio is located in the Bible Museum (MS. 20) in Münster.

Loving Frank

Result was a two-volume folio of 100 lithographs known as the Wasmuth Portfolio.

M. Bernard Loates

In 1999 Loates entered an agreement with Aboriginal Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau also known as Copper Thunderbird, and the "Picasso of the North", to produce a folio of serigraphics based upon thirty of his original works of art.

Mario Taddei

Studies on the subject mention that manuscripts relating to Leonardo’s idea for the robot are in the Codex Atlanticus, specifically folio 579r.

Meyer Shapiro

Meir Shapiro, dean of Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, and founder of the Daf Yomi Talmud folio cycle

Minuscule 522

According to the note on folio 319 the manuscript was written in Mirandola in 1515 (or 1516) for the wish Giovanni Francesco Picus of Mirandola by Michael Damascenus from Crete.

Pararaton

The comparatively short text of 32 folio-size pages (1126 lines) contains the history of the kings of Singhasari and Majapahit in eastern Java.

Peter Lum

His profile and interviews appeared in the September-October 2007 issue of Men's Folio (along with his co-host of Project Runway Malaysia, Bernie Chan) and the October 2007 issue of Oxygen.

Robert Allot

An entry in the Stationers' Register dated 16 November 1630 transferred the rights to sixteen Shakespearean plays from Edward Blount, one of the publishers of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, to Robert Allot; these were sixteen of the eighteen plays in the First Folio that had not been previously published in quarto editions.

Sana'a manuscript

The German scholar Elisabeth Puin (of Saarland University), whose husband was the local director of the restoration project until 1985, has transcribed the lower text of six folios (and one side of another folio) in four successive publications.

Synarchism

The earliest recorded use of the term "synarchy" is attributed to Thomas Stackhouse (1677–1752), an English clergyman who used the word in his New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity (published in two folio volumes in 1737).

The Floure and the Leafe

Longleat 258, a manuscript of Middle English poems held at Longleat House in Wiltshire, mentions in its contents list a poem whose title is given in the Latinised form "De folio et flore" (Of the Leaf and the Flower).

Tina Darragh

Mass Transit, and after it Folio bookshop, became focal points for much of the poetic activity that was to result in the East Coast wing of the "Language" group, and here Darragh met other poets, including Susan Howe, Diane Ward, Doug Lang, Joan Retallack, and P. Inman, all of whom were also to become key members of the group.

TomFolio.com

According to the Penkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the reference is to Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725),nicknamed Tom Folio, a lawyer and bibliophile whose accumulation of books at his residence in Gray's Inn was said to have compelled him to sleep in a passageway.

Wilmcote

The minutes of the Stratford Corporation, 11 November 1584 (approximately a decade before the play), mention "the tythes of Wyncote", the very spelling of the village that appears in the Folio text of The Shrew.


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