The following are some of the most recent additions to the Marylandia and Rare Books Collection.

Maryland History

• Fay, John B.
  Capture of Generals Crook and Kelley by the McNeil Rangers. February 21, 1865. Cumberland, MD: Laney Souvenir Co., 1899. First Edition.
  Call#: MD RARESTK E477.6 .F3 1890z
  An account by Cumberland, Maryland native John Fay, who served with the McNeill Rangers and was reportedly the mastermind behind the successful plan to capture Union Generals B.F. Kelley and George Crook, who were headquartered in Cumberland.
• Kennedy, John Pendleton.
  The Great Drama: An Appeal to Maryland. Baltimore: John D. Toy, printer, 1861.
  Call #: MD Rare Stacks E512 .K35 1861
  A plea from Maryland congressman and author John Pendleton Kennedy for the state to remain in the Union.
Maryland Literature
• Cho, Frank, Al Williamson, Mark Schulz.
  Frank Cho, Illustrator. Signed First Edition.
  Baltimore, MD: Insight Studios, 2000.
  Call #: MD Folio PN6727.C49 F7 2000
• Gross, Allan, Frank Cho and Mark Wheatley.
  Art of Insight Studios. Signed Limited Edition.
  Baltimore, MD: Insight Studios, 2001.
  Call #: MD Stacks N6537.I56 G76 2001
• Cho, Frank.
  Liberty Meadows Big Book of Love. Signed Limited Edition.
  Baltimore, MD: Insight Studios, 2001.
  Call #: MD Folio PN6727.C49 L54 2001
  Three full color editions featuring the work of former Diamondback comics artist Frank Cho.
• Kennedy, John Pendleton.
  Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals Thereof, With an Authentic Account of the Origin and Growth of the Borough, and the Sayings and Doings of Sundry of the Townspeople . . . by Solomon Secondthoughts, Schoolmaster . . .
  Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1860. Second Edition.
  Call#: MD RARE STK PZ3.K383 Q 1860
  John Pendleton Kennedy was a Maryland congressman, author and literary patron who assisted the career of Edgar Allen Poe, among others. Quodlibet is a social and political satire, ca. 1830s.
• Steadman, John F.
  Football's Miracle men: The Baltimore Colts Story.
  Baltimore: Press Box Publishers, 1958. First Edition.
  Call #: MD Stacks GV956.B3 S7 1959
  Baltimore native and sports editor for the Baltimore News American, John Steadman's history of the Baltimore Colts football team, from their founding in 1947 to their 1958 world championship win over the New York Giants in what has come to be known as "the best game ever played."
Printing History / Fine Press
• Zapf's Civilité Disclosed.
  Northampton, Mass.: The Gehenna Press, 1995.
  Call#: MD SPEC COLL FOLIO Z250.Z36 1995
  One of an edition limited to 125 numbered copies signed by artist Leonard Baskin. Formed, arranged, and designed by Leonard Baskin. Printed by Arthur Larson. Zapf's Civilité Disclosed is a type specimen book featuring Palatino typeface creator Hermann Zapf's version of the Civilité type face. Each page includes a "terse" or "pithy" quote, set in Civilité, surrounded in various printers ornaments, and printed in a variety of colors.
• Hughes, Ted.
  Howls and Whispers. Rockport, Maine: The Gehenna Press, 1998.
  Call#: MD SPEC COLL FOLIO PR6058.U37 H695 1998
  Copy number 84 is signed by the author, Ted Hughes, and artist, Leonard Baskin. This limited edition from the Gehenna Press contains works not released in Hughes's collection of autobiographical poems, Birthday Letters. Some works were included in the posthumously published Collected Poems. Much of the work in Howls and Whispers deals with the suicide of Hughes's first wife, Sylvia Plath, and includes watercolors by artist and collaborator Leonard Baskin.
• Heaney, Howell. J.
  Thirty Years of Bird and Bull: A Bibliography, 1958 — 1988.
  Call#: MD SPEC COLL FOLIO Z232.B6 H43 1988
  Foreword and commentary by Henry Morris. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies. Contains a complete bibliographical description of all books and selected ephemera printed by and for the Bird and Bull press, a private American press founded by Henry Morris in Newtown, Pennsylvania in 1958. Includes books printed by the press for others, since 1980 and a short-title list of all the entries from a 1979 bibliography, making this the definitive work on the Bird and Bull Press.
Rare Books
• Maréchal, Sylvain.
  Antiquités d'Herculanum; ou, Les plus belles peintures antiques, et les marbres, bronzes, meubles, etc. etc., trouvés dans les excavations d'Herculanum, Stabia et Peompeïa; gravées par F.A. David; avec leurs explications, par P.S. Maréchal. Paris: F.A. David, 1780.
  Call#: MD RARESTK DG70.H5 M2 1780
  The eighteenth century discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii, ancient cities destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D., created a sensation and helped advance the science of archaeology. This title is a 9-volume illustrated guide to the ruins at Herculaneum, published in 1780, 42 years after the first formal excavations began in 1738.
• Recueil de plances, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Vols. 7 and 8. Paris, Briasson, 1762-1772.
  Call#: MD RARE FOLIO AE25 .E543
  The plate volumes from the first edition of the famous Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert are among the most prized. Volume 7 is especially noteworthy for its copper plate engravings illustrating the art and mechanics of printing, including typesetting and printing presses. Numerous other subjects are covered as well, among them, the care of horses and ship building.
• Der Amethyst, [Blätter für seltsame Litteratur und Kunst]
  Ödenburg, Röttig: Herausgeber Franz Blei, 1906.
  Call#: MD SPEC COLL STK AP30.A51 1906
  Der Amethyst was an Austrian periodical for literature and the arts that ran between December 1905 and November 1906. This item is number 688 of a special bound and limited edition of 800 copies of the journal printed especially for subscribers. Included in this edition are plates by Belgian artist Félicien Rops, Austrian artist Alfred Kubin, and English artist Aubrey Beardsely, among others, and a collection of plays, poems, and literature.

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