Henry Chapman Mercer (1856–1930)
Autore di Ancient Carpenters' Tools
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Opere di Henry Chapman Mercer
The dating of old houses: A paper read by Dr. Henry C. Mercer, of Doylestown, Pa., at a meeting of The Bucks County… (1976) 12 copie
The hill-caves of Yucatan : a search for evidence of man's antiquity in the caverns of Central America : being an… (1975) 9 copie
The Survival of the Medieaval Art of Illuminated Writing Among Pennsylvania Germans (pamphlet) 2 copie
Light and Fire Making 2 copie
Hill Caves of Yucatan 2 copie
The Bible in iron: Pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans ; notes on colonial firebacks in the… (1961) 2 copie
The Lenape stone 2 copie
An Ancient argillite quarry and Indian village site on the Delaware (Bureau of Ethnology Bulletin 21) (1894) 1 copia
THE TILED PAVEMENT IN THE CAPITOL OF PENNSYLVANIA. Revised and Edited by Ginger Duemler. Illustrated by Linda Brown. (1975) — Autore — 1 copia
The Bible In Iron: Or, The Pictured Stoves And Stove Plates Of The Pennsylvania Germans ... (2012) 1 copia
The Hill-Caves of Yucatán 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Mercer, Henry Chapman
- Data di nascita
- 1856-06-24
- Data di morte
- 1930-03-09
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Doylestown Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard University (liberal arts ∙ 1879)
University of Pennsylvania (law ∙ 1881) - Attività lavorative
- tile maker
building designer
archaeologist - Organizzazioni
- University of Pennsylvania
Bucks County Historical Society
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 31
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 213
- Popolarità
- #104,444
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 12
Mercer’s stories often feel a lot more lively than the drier style of many of his predecessors and contemporaries and that’s largely thanks to his experience and love of each historical influence he draws upon shining through, alongside a willingness to vary his settings. We read tales of a mad scientist plotting on gaslit riversides and warehouses; deadly spiritual customs and creepy avian nightmares; before travelling to the Carpathian mountains and its ancient monastic scrolls and early werewolf legends. We are even treated to parallels of Jason’s adventure to seek the Golden Fleece, a trip to the beautiful locales around Sicily and finally a wonderful mystery surrounding a forgotten piece of Italian art.
Sometimes Mercer’s enthusiastic informational flourishes divert a story off course as it does slightly in ‘The Blackbirds’ or in the even more indulgent ‘Sunken City’, and his occasional longer sentences are of an older era which will be slightly jarring to modern readers. But, these are minor quibbles. Once again Valancourt have brought back a fine collection of little known supernatural/weird tales to warm oneself with by the fire on any cold November night. Or even any night.… (altro)