Papers of Alfred Richard Allinson, 1905-1933.

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Papers of Alfred Richard Allinson, 1905-1933.

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Drafts and fair copies of Allinson's translation of the Golden Ass (The Metamorphoses, Commonly Known as The Golden Ass, of Lucius Apuleius. A New Version by the late Sir Richard Burton. Completed and Revised, with Notes and Introduction by A.R. Allinson (M.A. Oxon.); the notes by F.D. Byrnes on William Adlington's translation of the text, and Allinson's correspondence with Charles A. Groves of Groves & Michaux, and the Panurge Press about various translating projects. Also included are six letters from Etienne Dinet, French Orientalist artist and author, to Charles Carrington, about the publication of about his Life of Mohammad (1917-1921), two printed Carrington cataloges and price lists, and a photograph of Dr. Friedrich S. Krause and V.R. Gjorgjevič, inscribed to Charles Carrington (1906, May 21. Vienna).

21 pieces.2 boxes.

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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890

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Richard Francis Burton was born March 19, 1821, at Torquay; he was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, but did not take a degree. He became a noted linguist, writer, translator and explorer; he is probably best known for his translations of the works of The Arabian Nights and The Kama Sutra..., as well as his travels in Africa, the Middle East, South America and Iceland. Isabel Arundell was born March 20, 1831, in London, of an old, established Roman Catholic family. In 1861, afte...

Apuleius.

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Dinet, Étienne, 1861-1929

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French painter. From the description of Note, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78114303 ...

Panurge Press

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Byrne, Francis D., 1860 or 1861-

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Carrington, Charles

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Groves, Charles S. (Charles Stuart), 1867-

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Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard)

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Alfred Richard Allinson (b. 1872,) a noted classical scholar and translator. Allinson did his undergraduate study at Lincoln College and served as Senior Assistant Classical Master of Somersetshire College, Bath in 1884, and in 1885 and 1886, assistant master at Kelly College (Tavistock). He worked with Charles Carrington (Paul Harry Ferdinando, 1867-1921), an English publisher and bookseller who ran a bookshop in Paris and, from 1907 to 1912, following his expulsion from France for publishing a...