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Book of the Week – The Pennsylvania Gazette

24 Monday Jun 2013

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American colonies, Benjamin Franklin, Hugh Meredith, John Penn, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Quakers, Ronald Rubin, Samuel Keimer, William Penn

The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1763, Front Page
The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1763, Spread
The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1763, Back Page

The Pennsylvania Gazette
Philadelphia, PA: Printed by B. Franklin and H. Meredith, 1763
AN2 P4 U64, No. 1822 November 24, 1763

The Pennsylvania Gazette was published in Philadelphia between 1728 and 1800. It began publication with the title The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette, founded by Samuel Keimer. In 1729 Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith bought the paper and shortened the name. Franklin printed the paper and also contributed pieces, often using a pseudonym. The paper became one of the most successful in the American colonies. This issue, no. 1822, November 24, 1763, leads with letters of welcome to John Penn, grandson of William Penn, upon his arrival in Philadelphia as governor.

Penn took the oath of office on October 31. He would be the last governor of colonial Pennsylvania, leaving in 1776 after the creation of an independent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, when the Penn family was removed from power.

Letters of welcome include those from the Quakers, the “Managers and Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Hospital,” “the Corporation for the Relief of poor and distressed Presbyterian Ministers, and the Relief of their Widows and Children,” “the Baptist Church, at Philadelphia,” and “the Library Company of Philadelphia.” All of the letters seek aid of one sort or another from Penn. The Library Company’s letter notes that the Penn family “has always favoured our Institution, and promoted it, by their frequent and generous Benefactions.”

This issue was a gift from Dr. Ronald Rubin, a frequent and generous benefactor to the Rare Books Division.  Dr. Rubin, a political science professor and noted antiquarian, has written articles on world politics for the New York Magazine, the New York Times, the Jewish Press, the Jerusalem Post, Western Political Quarterly, Christian Science Monitor, Forward, the Wall Street Journal and other leading publications. An anthology of his pieces, A Jewish Professor’s Political Punditry: Fifty-plus Years of Published Commentary by Ron Rubin, was published this March.

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Watch Rare Books at TEDxUGA

20 Thursday Jun 2013

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In March, Dr. Belinda Stallion Southard presented at TEDxUGA. She included he image “Philadelphia Hall Burning” from History of Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, 1838, first edition. You can now watch Dr. Stallion’s talk, Change the Language, Change the Beliefs. See our March 21 post for more information about the image and its journey to TEDxUGA.

Philadelphia Hall Burning, 1838

Philadelphia Hall Burning, 1838

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University of Utah rare books featured in University of Washington graduate student capstone project

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Alison Conner, American Revolution, J. Willard Marriott Library, rare books, University of Utah, University of Washington

Alison Conner, Rare Books Curator and MLIS candidate at the University of Washington, used rare books as the focus of her capstone project. Based on a physical exhibition Alison curated in 2012 as another school project, Alison designed and produced a collaborative, multimedia, online exhibition. Visit fightingwordsonline.org for a virtual tour of the American Revolution, told through the words of those who fought it. Videos, scanned images, and text work together to enhance the experience. Alison worked with faculty and students from the University of Utah’s Theater department, Film and Media Arts department; and staff from the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Scholarship and Information Services and Special Collections’ Rare Books Division.

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Book of the Week – Contra Haereticos et Gentiles

17 Monday Jun 2013

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Arianism, Athanasius, Christianity, monotheism, Orthodoxy, salvation

Contra Haereticos et Gentiles, 1482
Contra Haereticos et Gentiles, 1482
Contra Haereticos et Gentiles, 1482

Contra Haereticos et Gentiles
Saint Patriarch of Alexandria Athanasius (293-373)
Impressum Vicentiae: a Leonardo basilensi, Feb. 1 (cal. Februarias), 1482
Editio princeps
BT1350 A8162 1482

A collection of letters, speeches and tracts written against heretical beliefs.

“The Father of Orthodoxy,” Athanasius conducted a life-long battle against Arianism. Before the outbreak of the Arian controversy, which began in 319, Athanasius became known for his two essays addressed to a convert to Christianity, one of them entitled Against the Gentiles, the other On the Incarnation of the Word. The treatises argue such questions as monotheism and the necessity of divine interposition for the salvation of the world.

Contra Gentiles is an explanation of the Incarnation and the doctrine of the Trinity. In Contra Gentiles, Athanasius discusses the means by which God can be known. These are principally two: the soul and nature. God may be known through the human soul, for “although God Himself is above all, the road which leads to Him is not far, nor even outside ourselves, but is within us, and it is possible to find it by ourselves” (30.1). A study of the soul reveals something about the nature of God. Sin prevents the soul from perfectly attaining the vision of God, but the soul was made according to the divine image and it was intended to be like a mirror in which that image, which is the Word of God, would shine. The soul is invisible and immortal; therefore, the true God must be invisible and immortal. God may be known through his creation, which, “as though in written characters, declares in a loud voice, by its order and harmony, its own Lord and Creator” (34.4).

This is the only edition of this work printed in the 15th century.

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Book of the Week – Micrographia Restaurata

10 Monday Jun 2013

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microscope, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Samuel Pepys

Micrographia Restaurata, 1745, Cover
Micrographia Restaurata, 1745, Bug
Micrographia Restaurata, 1745, Eyes

Micrographia Restaurata
Robert Hooke (1635 – 1703)
London: Printed for and sold by J. Bowles, 1745
QH27 H8

Robert Hooke, a gifted student, became the research assistant to Robert Boyle, founding member of the Royal Society. He was appointed Curator of Experiments in 1662 and by 1663 was conducting microscope demonstrations for the Society. Within months, Hooke was invited to Whitehall, where he demonstrated some of his exciting findings to King Charles II.

By order of the King, his discoveries were then published as a commemorative book, Micrographia, in 1664.  Micrographia was an instant bestseller.  Samuel Pepys, who owned a microscope during his tenure at the Navy Office, wrote that he liked Micrographia better than any other book he had purchased, and that he sat up half the night reading it. Seventy years later, plates from the original edition were reprinted by Henry Baker, an amateur enthusiast of Hooke’s work. This new book, Micrographia Restaurata, was published in 1745 and again in 1780.

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Mimeo Mimeo 8: Curator’s Choice

07 Friday Jun 2013

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Book Arts Program, Craig Dworkin, David Wolske, Emily Tipps, Flatbed Splendor, Granary Books, Grey Spider Press, Kenneth Patchen, Luise Poulton, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Nexus Press, Untide Press, Whale Cloth Press

Rare Books worked with the Book Arts Program to contribute to Mimeo Mimeo 8: Curator’s Choice. Mimeo Mimeo editors asked “librarians, publishers, poets, printers, book dealers, book collectors, and others bibliographically inclined” from around the country “to curate six pages of Mimeo Mimeo with six items from their personal or institutional collections.” Rare Books Managing Curator Luise Poulton joined Marnie Powers-Torrey, David Wolske, Emily Tipps (Book Arts Program faculty);  Prof. Craig Dworkin (Dept. of English, University of Utah); and Becky Thomas (graduate student, Dept. of English, University of Utah) as part of the “Utah posse” of contributors. Each chose one book from the rare book collections.

Luise wrote about Kenneth Patchen’s An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air, Waldport, OR: Untide Press, 1945 PS3531 A764 A77 1944

An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air, 1945, Cover
An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air, 1945, Poems 18,19, 20

Marnie Powers-Torrey wrote about Bridget Elmer’s Fibre Libre, Tuscaloosa, AL: Flatbed Splendor, 2010 N7433.4 E545 F5 2010

Fibre Libre, 2010
Fibre Libre, 2010

David Wolske wrote about Rebecca Brown’s Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, Sedro-Wooley, WA: Grey Spider Press, 2001 RC265.6 B76 B76 2001

Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, 2001
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, 2001

Emily Tipps wrote about Ruth Laxson’s A Hundred Years of: LEX FLEX, Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 2003 N7433.4 L39 H8 2003

A Hundred Years of: LEX FLEX, 2003
A Hundred Years of: LEX FLEX, 2003
A Hundred Years of: LEX FLEX, 2003

Craig Dworkin wrote about Robert Grenier’s Sentences, Cambridge, MA: Whale Cloth Press, 1978 N7433.4 G797 S4 1978

Sentences, 1978
Sentences, 1978

Becky Thomas wrote about Jen Bervin’s The Desert, New York City: Granary Books, 2008 N7433.4 B47 D47 2008

The Desert, 2008

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Book of the Week – Wo/Men at Work

03 Monday Jun 2013

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AIGA, award, BFK, binding, Book Arts Program, Cheltenham Italic, Claire Taylor, Copper Ingot, Copper Ingot award, David Wolske, Emily Tipps, Franklin Gothic, Greg Thompson, Laura Decker, letterpress, Linotype, Marnie Powers-Torrey, pamphlet, paper, papers, photopolymer plates, Red Butte Press, Rives Heavyweight, sans serif, serif, typeface, typefaces, W-fold, W-fold pamphlet

Wo/Men at Work, 2012, Cover
Wo/Men at Work, 2012
Wo/Men at Work, 2012, Image

Wo/Men at Work
Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press, 2012
N7433.4 W65 2012

Three texts (“Consuming labor: a preface to Wo/Men at Work” by Matt Basso and Andrew Farnsworth, “Cooking from Scratch” by Judy Blunt, and “Everything’s dangerous: an essay from the 1941 collection Men at Work” by Ralph Powell) printed in a W-fold pamphlet. Titles printed on opposite covers. From the colophon: “…Book Arts Program staff contributors are Managing Director Marnie Powers-Torrey, Creative Director David Wolske, Laura Decker, Claire Taylor, Becky Thomas and Emily Tipps. David designed and typeset the text. The typefaces, evocative of the 1930s and ‘40s printshop vernacular, are as follows: bold titling is Hamilton, a revival of a popular 19th century wood type; bylines and colophon are Franklin Gothic, a workhorse sans serif found in printshops across America; italic subheadings are Cheltenham Italic, a ubiquitous early 20th century serif design; and the main body typeface is a version of Fairfield, released in 1939 and designed for the Linotype machine. Claire and Laura produced the saddle and pressure cooker drawings, respectively, in dialogue with the essays and one another…Andrew [Farnsworth], Dayna Kerns, and Chris Dunsmore, under the direction of Book Arts staff, letterpress-printed the imagery and text from photopolymer plates on Rives Heavyweight and BFK papers. Emily oversaw binding design and production of the W-fold pamphlet…Associate Director for Special Collection Greg Thompson provided the committed support that helped make this endeavor a reality.” Edition of twenty-six copies. University of Utah copies are letters ‘U’ and ‘V.’

Congratulations to the Book Arts Program and Red Butte Press staff for receiving one of 7 AIGA 100 Show Professional Copper Ingot awards for Wo/men at Work. The AIGA 100 Show showcases the year’s best design, advertising, and digital media. Of those pieces, a select few are awarded the Copper Ingot, one of the most sought-after communication awards in the Intermountain West. Visit http/aigaslc100show.com for information, to view pictures from the awards ceremony, and download the 100 Show Book PDF.

 

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