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collectanea. May I be permitted to end 
with a slightly facetious note: it is amusing 
that this very well produced volume, so full 
of information on early typography, contains 
a modern printer's typographical accident; 
on page 2 4 0 the " J " of Jordanus left its 
proper place and halfheartedly substituted 
for an Arabic " 1 " in the footnote.—Rudolf 
Hirsch, University of Pennsylvania. 

A Garland for Jake Zeitlin on the Oc-
casion of His 65th Birthday and the 
Anniversary of His 40th Year in the 
Book Trade. Ed. by J . M. Edelstein. Los 
Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 
1967. [x], 132p. 

Jacob Israel Zeitlin's infectious love of 
books, his detailed knowledge of them, and 
his keen nose for them have inspired and 
helped hundreds of librarians, collectors, 
and others. Now seventeen of these have 
joined together to manifest their affection 
for and gratitude to the dean of west-coast 
booksellers. 

There is more Fest than Schrift in the 
volume, which is not unbefitting the effer-
vescent personality of the honoree. Two 
of the essays, however, make serious con-
tributions to scholarship. The first is a 
selective bibliography of the steam loco-
motive by Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr., who 
adds illuminating comment to his descrip-
tions of twenty-three books printed from 
1556 to 1966 and relating to Great Britain, 
the United States, France, Germany, Switz-
erland, Holland, and Bussia. J. M. Edel-
stein (also the editor) supplies an expert 
bibliography of the twenty-nine editions 
published between 1929 and 1936 by the 
Primavera Press, of which Jake Zeitlin was 
a cofounder. 

T h e other contributions are chiefly remi-
niscent and, deservedly, panegyric. The 
breadth of Jake's influence is indicated by 
tributes from such eminences as Elmer 
Belt and Bern Dibner among the collectors, 
Lawrence Clark Powell and Robert Vosper 
among the librarians, and Winifred A. 
Myers and Warren R. Howell among the 
professional colleagues. 

Jake's lifetime interest in graphics is re-
flected in two agreeable drawings by Paul 
Julian and Rudi Baumfeld and a superb 
portrait photograph by Robert Bobrow 

showing Jake at his philosophical and un-
ruffled best. 

There are the few inevitable slips. To 
describe Jake as Princeps omnium librarian 
—which can be rendered as "first of all 
plummets"—emphasizes his love of pounds 
rather than his love of books. (That Jake 
has always loved books is nowhere better 
shown than in the large-paper edition of 
Norman Douglas's Capri ( 1 9 3 0 ) , where his 
name appears among such other subscribers 
as Arnold Bennett, D. H. Lawrence, Booth 
Tarkington, and H. G. Wells.) 

The volume has been lovingly produced 
by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantain 
Press (typography); Grant Dahlstrom at the 
Castle Press (printing); and the Earle Gray 
Company (binding). Save for the uncom-
fortable crowding of some lines, it is an 
attractive piece of bookmaking. 

Only eight hundred copies have been 
printed. If everyone who admires Jake 
Zeitlin wants a copy, there will be a second 
edition.—Herman W. Liebert, Yale Uni-
versity. 

Mark Hopkins' Log and Other Essays. 
By Louis Shores. Selected by John David 
Marshall. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String 
Press, 1965. 383p. $9. ( 6 5 - 1 2 1 4 4 ) . 

An enduring faith in the library profes-
sion, a dedication to cooperation among 
its many and varied members, strong con-
victions on what is needed to improve the 
education of these members, and an op-
timistic view of the future pervade these 
forty-four articles and speeches by Dr. 
Shores, selected by John David Marshall 
from some two hundred published between 
1928 and 1964, most of them during the 
ten years of 1950-1960. That these con-
victions have grown stronger is evident from 
a 1962 speech to a group of special librari-
ans. "To this librarian with over four dec-
ades of dedication to his profession, li-
brarianship is a profession of destiny. I rec-
ognize in library science the subject of 
subjects that may yet help mankind to an 
understanding of the universe, not as seg-
mented findings, but as a truthful whole. 
Then will our profession finally contribute 
to the welfare of the world." 

Dr. Shores' professions of faith are ar-
ranged under seven subjects, the first prop-