History in Your Hand book. This book chronicles the evolution of the Manuscript Society, a fifty-year-old organization of collectors and archivists, in the context of autograph collecting in general.

History in Your Hand book.

A comprehensive and readable history of the Manuscript Society's first 50 years and of the world of autograph collecting and archiving. Over 14 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.

JOHN M. TAYLOR is a past president of the Manuscript Society (1980-1982). From 1952 to 1987 he was employed by the . Government, including four foreign postings with the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency. The author of seven books of biography and history, he is a frequent contributor to historical magazines and has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. His most recent book, Confederate Raider: Raphael Semmes of the Alabama, was a 1995 selection of the History Book Club.

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HISTORY IN YOUR HAND: Fifty Years of The Manuscript Society. More than a half-century has passed since the founding of The Manuscript Society in Chicago in 1948. To help commemorate this important milestone, the Society has commissioned former Society President John M. Taylor, the author of six acclaimed books in the fields of history and biography, to write a definitive history of the Society. The volume was published as part of the Society’s 50th anniversary celebration. The autograph collector’s checklist.

History in Your Hand: Fifty Years of the Manuscript Society by John M. Taylor (E. This book chronicles the evolution of the Manuscript Society, a fifty-year-old organization of collectors and archivists, in the context of autograph collecting in general

History in Your Hand: Fifty Years of the Manuscript Society by John M.

Manuscript Society is a senior society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Toward the end of each academic year 16 rising seniors are inducted into the society, which meets twice weekly for dinner and discussion

Manuscript Society is a senior society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Toward the end of each academic year 16 rising seniors are inducted into the society, which meets twice weekly for dinner and discussion. Manuscript is reputedly the "Arts and letters" society at Yale. Founded in 1952, Manuscript was Yale's seventh "landed" senior society; that is, its alumni trust owns the society's meeting place or "tomb".

The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The name of the book comes from the bibliopole named M. Voynich. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and it may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912. Voynich tried to decrypt the code for years since he got his hands on the book, thinking that there may be some cryptic secrets that have been hidden. But he couldn't find any results.

List of most expensive books and manuscripts. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century St Cuthbert Gospel and Quran leaf palimpsest to a 21st-century holograph manuscript of J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Foreword by John D. Haskell) History in your Hand: Fifty Years of the Manuscript Society, Praeger (Westport .

Foreword by John D. Haskell) History in your Hand: Fifty Years of the Manuscript Society, Praeger (Westport, CT), 1997. While Cannons Roared: The Civil War behind the Lines, Brassey's (Washington, DC), 1997. With William N. Still, J. and Norman C. Delaney) Raiders and Blockaders: The American Civil War Afloat, Brassey's (Washington, DC), 1998. Foreword by Rod Paschall) Duty Faithfully Performed: Robert E. Lee and His Critics, Brassey's (Dulles, VA), 1999.