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Daily Utah Chronicle Article – Faculty Club Presentaion

28 Monday Jan 2013

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Donna Gelfand, Faculty Club

The Daily Utah Chronicle joined the Faculty Club for a visit to learn more about the rare book collections and how they are used.

See the front-page article:
Rare book collection preserves treasured publications

“Why do you want a museum? It’s exactly the same,”  [Donna] Gelfand said. “It protects and maintains historical material that would just be lost.”

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Book of the Week – The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles

28 Monday Jan 2013

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black letter, Rafael Holinshead, type, William Shakespeare

Cover, 1587
Title Page, 1587
Introduction to the History of Ireland, 1587


The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles
Raphael Holinshead (d. 1580?)
London: 1587
Second edition
DA130 H6 1587

A monumental history of England, Ireland, and Scotland, the profusely illustrated first edition of Chronicles was published in 1577. The second, enlarged edition was published in 1587. It is in three folio volumes (usually bound as two). The type is black letter in double columns. The pages are standard folio size, and the second edition is without illustrations. The text runs to about 3.5 million words, roughly equal to the total of the Authorized Version of the Bible, the complete dramatic works of Shakespeare, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, and War and Peace combined. The Chronicles are remembered not for themselves but for one of their readers – William Shakespeare.

The Chronicles were an important source for thirteen of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays. It was the 1587, second edition which Shakespeare read.

Engraved title-pages. Rebound ca. 1982 in a full conservation binding of modern three-quarter levant and unbleached linen. Geometric blind stamping to leather spine and corner pieces. Title hand tooled on spine in gilt.

Shakespeare is coming! The First Folio will arrive at the City Library in October.

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Rare Books Exhibition: Nahuatl Spoken Here

25 Friday Jan 2013

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New Exhibition

Nahuatl Spoken Here, 2013

Nahuatl Spoken Here, 2013

January 18–March 3

Exhibition: Nahuatl Spoken Here

Curator: Luise Poulton

Location: Special Collections Gallery, J. Willard Marriott Library, level 4

Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00–6:00; Saturday, 9:00–6:00; Hours differ during University breaks and holidays.

The exhibition is FREE and open to the public.

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Weller Book Works, Collectors’ Book Salon: Luise Poulton, University of Utah Special Collections

23 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Collector's Book Salon, Luise Poulton, Weller Book Works

Join Managing Curator, Luise Poulton at Weller Book Works, Collectors’ Book Salon.
 
http://www.samwellers.com/events/
  • Date: Friday, January 25, 2013
    Time: 6:30 PM
  • Location:
    Weller Book Works
  • Address:
    607 Trolley Square
    Salt Lake City, UT 84102

Weller Book Works, Collectors’ Book Salon speaker this month will be Luise Poulton, Managing Curator of the Rare Books Division, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Her talk is entitled “Where Did All These Book Come from? Collecting Books with a History”.

The Collectors’ Book Salon occurs on the last Friday of each month from 6:30 until 9:00 PM. They are semi-formal but playful affairs with music, snacks, and drinks. At 7:30, guests gather for brief bibliographic presentations.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Book of the Week – Bone Songs

21 Monday Jan 2013

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Barcham Green Royal Watercolour, Claire Van Vliet, Clifford Burke, french-fold, Gill Sans Light, Janus Press, paper, Ruth Fine, typeface

Bone Songs, 1992

Bone Songs, 1992

Bone Songs
Clifford Burke
Neward, VT: Janus Press, 1992
N7433.4 B884 B68 1992

A group of twenty poems inspired by a series of bone and skull drawings by Ruth Fine, eighteen of which are included in this edition. The typeface on forty french-folded pages is 10 point Gill Sans Light printed on Barcham Green Royal Watercolour society paper. Bound in a woven non-adhesive structure on MacGregor-Vinzani calendered ivory abaca paper. Housed in two slipcases; one of Barcham Green’s Renaissance IV made from old British Mailbags; the other is drum vellum. Both slipcases are constructed without glue. The entire structure designed and executed by Claire Van Vliet. Edition of one hundred and fifty copies, numbered and signed by the author, illustrator, and printer. University of Utah copy is no. 24.

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Major Donation to Rare Books

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Cheshire Cat, Cyril Bathurst Judge, fairy tales, George MacDonald, gift inscription, gilt, Greg Thompson, Henry Kingsley, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Michael R. Thompson Rare Books, Michael Sharpe, pictorial cloth bindings, preliminary blank, Punch

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The White Rabbit

Mad Hatter
Alice meets the Queen

A first edition, second printing of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1866) and a first edition of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872) join the Rare Books Department, Special Collections. The anonymous donation was facilitated by Michael Thompson of Michael R. Thompson Rare Books, Los Angeles, California. We are thankful for the generosity of the donor and indebted to Michael Thompson for his friendship.

“This is an important and very welcomed addition to the J. Willard Marriott Library,” said Greg Thompson, Associate Dean of Special Collections. The value of the books is estimated at $30,000.

The books are in their original gilt pictorial cloth bindings. The inside front boards bear two bookplates, one of Harvard scholar Cyril Bathurst Judge (b. 1888), the other of book collector Michael Sharpe. A gift inscription on the preliminary blank of Through the Looking Glass is dated December 25, 1871, one month before official publication.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s now-famous Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was intended solely for Alice Liddell and her two sisters. Dodgson made the story up to engage the bored children during a series of outings. Alice asked Dodgson to write the story down. Dodgson presented his manuscript to Alice as a Christmas gift in 1864.

Friend and novelist Henry Kingsley saw the manuscript and encouraged Dodgson to publish the book. Dodgson consulted another friend, George MacDonald. Macdonald, a popular writer of fairy tales and fantasy, read the story to his children, who thoroughly approved of it. Macdonald’s six-year-old son is said to have declared that he “wished there were 60,000 copies of it.”

Dodgson prepared the manuscript for publication, expanding the 18,000 word original to 35,000 words and adding, among other characters and scenes, the Cheshire Cat and “A Mad-Tea Party.” The first published edition included illustrations by John Tenniel, a cartoonist for the magazine, Punch. The edition of 4,000 copies was released, under the pseudonym “Lewis Carroll,” in time for Christmas in December of 1865, carrying 1866 as the publication date.

By 1884, 100, 000 copies had been printed.

Dodgson began writing Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There in 1869. The first edition was of 9000 copies. It was bound in the same red cloth, a color requested by Dodgson, as Alice’s Adventures.

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Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

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Book of the Week – Arithmetica Boetij

14 Monday Jan 2013

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Boethius, Erhard Ratdolt

Arithmetica Boetij, 1488
Arithmetica Boetij, 1488
Arithmetica Boetij, 1488


Arithmetica Boetij
Boethius (d. 524)
Augsburg: E. Ratdolt, 20 May 1488
Editio princips
PA6231 A7 1488

Ancius Manlius Severinuis Boethius, Roman philosopher and statesman, was appointed consul of Rome in 510. A minister under Emperor Theodoric, Boethius was falsely accused of treason, imprisoned, and sentenced to death.  According to tradition, he wrote his great work, The Consolation of Philosophy, while awaiting execution.  His treatise on ancient music was also for many centuries unrivaled as the final authority on Western music. Boethius’ Arithmetica was produced by Erhard Ratdolt as part of his extensive program of astronomical and mathematical publications. The early printed treatise is typical of the classical works used in Western European Renaissance education.

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Book of the Week – An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

07 Monday Jan 2013

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David Hume, Elizabeth Holt, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, paneled calf, printer, printing, Thomas Basset

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
John Locke (1632-1704)
London: Printed by Elizabeth Holt for Thomas Basset, 1690
First edition, first issue
B1290 1690

The foundation work of English political theory, this work is also fundamental in the history of psychology. Between 1763 and 1776, John Locke’s work was especially popular reading among English colonists in North America. Locke’s Essay was the first “modern” attempt to analyze the whole range of human knowledge. He applied an Anglo-Saxon penchant for facts to the study of philosophy (a field long-dominated by speculative enquiry) and concluded that most knowledge emanated from experience. Locke’s Essay was twenty years in the making. He completed the initial draft in 1671, but was unable to work on it further until his escape to Holland in 1683. Final revisions were completed by the time he returned to England in 1689. Although Locke was uncertain about the book’s reception, it quickly ran to several editions. Locke’s theories were continued by David Hume and Immanuel Kant. A busy man, philosopher Locke was also a physician and practiced medicine, although to a limited extent. Printer Elizabeth Holt carried on her husband’s business after his death in 1671. In 1688, she was ordered to “lay down the trade of printing,” part of growing strict control of the printing trade. To continue printing risked having her shop closed down. This may have been one of her last printing jobs. University of Utah copy bound in contemporary paneled calf.

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