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Book of the Week – Bon Bon Mots

28 Tuesday May 2013

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accordion fold, Flying Fish Press, Julie Chen, letterpress, miniature, miniature book, miniature books

Bon Bon Mots, 1998, Lid
Bon Bon Mots, 1998, Elegy
Bon Bon Mots, 1998, Social Graces

Bon Bon Mots
Julie Chen
Berkeley, CA: Flying Fish Press, 1998
N7433.4 C44 B66 1998

A box designed to resemble a candy box contains three miniature books (two of which are accordion folded), one folded octagonal object with text, and a small box with text also containing five copper balls which are to be placed into five holes on the larger box’s bottom surface. The contents are all designed to resemble pieces of candy, and are nested in a cloth which fits over the partitioned bottom of the larger box. A leaf with box’s contents is mounted on the inside lid. Text is letterpress printed. Edition of one hundred copies. University of Utah copy is no. 32.

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Book of the Week – De Historia Stirpivm Commentarii Insignes…

21 Tuesday May 2013

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Albrecht Meyer, botany, Columbian Encounter, De Historia Stirpium, Erfurt University, Fuchsia, German, Greek, Heinrich Fullmaurer, herbals, Ingolstadt, Latin, Leonhart Fuchs, maize, marigold, medicine, Mexico, plague, plants, potato, pumpkin, Renaissance, tobacco, Veit Rudof Speckle, William Morris, woodcuts

Fuchs, 1542, Title page
Fuchs, 1542, Portrait
Fuchs, 1542

De Historia Stirpivm Commentarii Insignes…
Leonhart Fuchs (1501 – 1566)
Basileae: In officina Isingriniana, 1542
QK41 F7 1542

During the European Renaissance, medical treatments were based on botany, but the herbals and other books available to practitioners often inaccurately identified plants. This herbal, The History of Plants, established a new standard of scientific observation and accurate illustration. Leonhart Fuchs compiled his text from various classical sources but added his own field observations.

The remarkably detailed woodcuts, drawn by Heinrich Fullmaurer and Albrecht Meyer and cut by Veit Rudolf Speckle represent the first published illustrations of American plants, including the pumpkin, the marigold, maize, potato, and tobacco – all native to Mexico and introduced into Europe as a consequence of the Columbian Encounter. The plants were identified in Latin, Greek, and German.

Leonhart Fuchs was a child genius, matriculating at Erfurt University at the age of twelve. He went on to take a degree in medicine at Ingolstadt. His medical work during an outbreak of plague in 1529 was outstanding and contributed to an already growing reputation. In his De Historia Stirpium he gave full recognition to his artists by praising them in his preface and publishing their portraits. The artists achieved an extraordinary beauty of line. Their renderings demonstrate the Renaissance shift to the accurate observation and drawing of plants from life.

Fuchs would be immortalized in the lovely genus Fuchsia. English artist and designer William Morris owned a copy of Fuchs’s book and clearly took inspiration from it for some of his own designs.

 

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Book of the Week – The Dollmaker’s Son

13 Monday May 2013

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aquatints, Bodoni, handset, Jean Butterfield, printed, type, typeface

The Dollmaker’s Son, 1991, Cover
The Dollmaker’s Son, 1991
The Dollmaker’s Son, 1991

The Dollmaker’s Son
Jean Butterfield
S.l.: November Press, 1991

Text handset and printed by the author. Typeface is Bodoni 14 pt. Illustrations are aquatints. Covers are stained plywood embellished with acrylic doll eyes. Edition of sixty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 3.

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Book of the Week – Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

06 Monday May 2013

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Arion Press, Barry Moser, Herman Melville

Moby Dick, 1979. Melville
Moby Dick, 1979, the Whale
Moby Dick, 1979, Pequod


Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1979
Z232.5 A7 M38 1979

Illustrations drawn and engraved by Barry Moser. Paper is Green’s handmade paper. Issued in case. Edition of 265 copies.

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