You are invited – Exhibit and Reception

30 Wednesday Apr 2014

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accordion, Allied Occupation, Catherine Tierney, Chinese, furigana, Japan, Katherine W. Dumke Fine Arts and Architecture Library, Lennox Tierney, manuscript, Marriott Library, orihon, Rare Books Division, Special Collections

Sponsored by the Katherine W. Dumke Fine Arts and Architecture Library, Picturing the Past: Exploring Past Images of Japan with Professor Lennox Tierney features photographs taken by Professor Emeritus Lennox Tierney while he was stationed in Japan during the Allied Occupation after World War II, and on frequent return visits over the next sixty years. The Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photograph Collection, comprised of more than 500,000 slides and prints, was donated to the Marriott Library’s Special Collections Department.

Thursday, May 15
4:30-6PM
Marriott Library, Level 1

For more information about the collection, please see:
http://www.lib.utah.edu/collections/Professor-Lennox-Tierney-project.php

and
Inventory of the Lennox Tierney papers 1911-2010

The Rare Books Division holds many books donated by Professor Tierney.

Kumaraju yaku
Japan: publisher not identified, approximately 1760
BQ1993 C5 K86 1760

Manuscript text in Chinese, with Japanese furigana, folded accordion style (orihon). University of Utah copy from the library of Lennox Tierney.

Kumaraju yaku
Shimane-gun: Matsuo Jokyu, Horeki 13, (1764)
BQ2053 J3 K86 1764

Manuscript text in Chinese, folded accordion style (orihon). University of Utah copy from the library of Lennox Tierney.

Join us! – ULA Annual Conference

29 Tuesday Apr 2014

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Bradford Cole, Brigham Young University, Luise Poulton, Scott Duvall, Special Collections, University of Utah, Utah Library Association, Utah State University

The Archives, Manuscripts & Special Collections (AMSC) Round Table is sponsoring a session at the Utah Library Association Annual Conference.

Thursday, May 1
4PM-5PM
South Towne Expo Center
Sandy, UT

Scott Duval (Brigham Young University) hosts a panel session “Special Collections: The New Public Service,” cosponsored with the Academic Library Section. Other participants on the panel are Bradford Cole (Utah State University) and Luise Poulton (The University of Utah).

Book of the Week – Rural Hours

28 Monday Apr 2014

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: Cooper, Rural Hours, 1850, Cover

: Cooper, Rural Hours, 1850, Title Page

: Cooper, Rural Hours, 1850, Hay-Making

Rural Hours. By a Lady
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894)
New York: George P. Putnam, 1850
First edition
QH81 C79 1850

The daughter of James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Cooper wrote this nature diary about life around Cooperstown, New York. Long overshadowed by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (published four years later), Rural Hours is now recognized as an important part of nineteenth-century American nature writing. It is likely that Thoreau read it. A prolific writer, Cooper founded an orphanage in Cooperstown in 1873, spending the rest of her life involved in its progress. Begun in a modest house with five pupils, a building built in 1883 sheltered ninety boys and girls by 1900. Orphans were fed, clothed and given a basic education. Bound in publisher’s green blindstamped cloth with gilt spine lettering.

Recommended Workshop – Non-Credit Letterpress

22 Tuesday Apr 2014

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accordion, Baskerville, Book Arts Program, Book Arts Studio, Center for Book Arts in NYC, Claire Taylor, concertina, Dikko Faust, French's Extra Blue Butcher, Futura, hand-stenciled, handset type, In Cahoots Press, letterpress, linoleum blocks, Macy Chadwick, Mohawk Superfine, moveable type, New York City, polymer plates, pressure prints, printmaking, Purgatory Pie Press, Rare Books Division, Rebecca Chamlee Keeley, relicensure points, Roma, Sarah Nicholls, Silk Tissue, Spartan, University of Utah, Utah State Board of Education, workshop, zinc cuts

The Book Arts Program presents

Non-Credit Letterpress

Tuesdays, May 13 through July 1
5PM – 8PM
Book Arts Studio, Level 4
J. Willard Marriott Library
Workshop fee: $280 Materials fee: $60

This gem of a workshop introduces the fundamentals of letterpress, from paper selection and cutting to mixing ink and printing. Practicing a variety of techniques and using an array of media – miraculous moveable type, dazzling zinc cuts, luscious linoleum blocks, and precious pressure prints, among others – participants design and produce several projects with the jewels of the Book Arts Studio: its flatbed cylinder and clamshell platen presses.

Instructor Claire Taylor is the Studio Manager at the Book Arts Program. She received a BFA from the University of Utah in printmaking in 2007. Working mainly in letterpress and drawn media, she exhibits nationally.

Relicensure points are available from the Utah State Board of Education.

For more information: bookartsprogram@utah.edu or 801-585-9191

The Rare Books Division supports the Book Arts Program with its collections.

Vanity
Rebecca Chamlee Keeley
Los Angeles: R.C. Keeley, 1988
N7433.4 K434 V35 1988

Trapazoidal pages in which the top edge has been trimmed on an angle. Accordion structure bound in cloth covered boards. From the colophon: “The text was composed in Spartan, Futura and Baskerville types by Bell Type and Rule Co., printed on Roma paper, written, designed and bound by me. The zinc cuts were colored by a letterpress method invented by Dikko Faust of Purgatory Pie Press.” Edition of twenty-five copies. University of Utah copy is no. 25, signed by the author.

Phosphorescent Face Highlighter
Sarah Nicholls
New York City: S. Nicholls, 2010
N7433.4 N525 P46 2010

From insert: “Letterpress printed from handset type and linoleum blocks at the Center for Book Arts in NYC.” Edition of forty-five copies. University of Utah copy is no. 10, initialed by the author.

The Topography of Home
Macy Chadwick
Oakland, CA: In Cahoots Press, 2009
N7433.4 C414 T68 2009

Pages attached to a concertina with most pages having a circular silk tissue window so that the preceding and following pages show through. From the colophon: “[W]ritten designed and [letterpress] printed by Macy Chadwick…Printed with pressure prints and polymer plates on Mohawk [sic] Superfine and French’s Extra Blue Butcher paper…Window images hand-stenciled on Silk Tissue.” Edition of fifty copies, numbered and signed by the author/artist. University of Utah copy is no. 26.

Book of the Week – Fabvlarvm Ovidii Interpretation, Ethica, Physica,…

21 Monday Apr 2014

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: Ovid, Fabvlarvm…, 1584

: Ovid, Fabvlarvm…, 1584

: Ovid, Fabvlarvm…, 1584

Fabvlarvm Ovidii Interpretation, Ethica, Physica,…
Ovid (43 bce – 17 or 18 ce)
Cantabrigiae: ex officina Thomae Thomae, 1584
PA6519 M2 1584

The University of Cambridge was granted printer’s privileges through a Royal Letters Patent by Henry VIII in 1534. Although it held privilege, the Cambridge press did not actually begin printing until 1582/3, after the appointment of Thomas Thomas as University Printer. At the time, the Stationers’ Company in London held a carefully monitored monopoly on printing in England. So fierce was the Stationers’ Company sense of competition, it arranged to have Thomas’ press seized.

Thomas, a fellow of King’s College and notable scholar, was the author of a Latin dictionary which was issued in at least eight editions from the Cambridge press before 1610. He printed at least twenty titles for the press before his death in 1588 at the age of thirty-five.

The University of Cambridge Press is the world’s oldest continually operating press and publisher. Its first book was printed in 1584, making this 1584 Ovid one of its first publications.

Recommended Workshop – Photopolymer Intaglio Printing

17 Thursday Apr 2014

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Asbern, Book Arts Guild, Book Arts Program, College Book Arts Association, Diane Fine, etching press, Gravel Press, gum bichromate prints, intaglio, Mare Blocker, Marnie Powers-Torrey, MKimberly Press, Moonkosh Press, National Museum for Women in the Arts, photolithographs, photopolymer, photopolymer plates, Twentieth Century Medium Italic, University of Idaho, University of Utah, University of Washington

The Book Arts Program presents

Photopolymer Intaglio Printing

Friday & Saturday, May 9 & 10
9:00a – 5:00p
Book Arts Studio, Level 4
J. Willard Marriott Library
Workshop fee: $160; Materials fee: $45

In this two-day printmaking powwow, Mare Blocker outlines methods for making images on transparencies as well as strategies for photopolymer intaglio printing and registration. Participants use black or tonal artwork on clear transparency to expose and develop a light sensitive photopolymer plate. By hand-wiping the photopolymer plate, participants create an original intaglio print using an etching press. Suitable for recreating an impression of a photographic image, rather than a highly detailed version. This method is ideal for those who want to reduce toxic materials in their studios. Discussion topics include ink, paper, and dampening choices. Open to all ages. Drawing experience preferred but not required.

Mare Blocker has been making limited edition and unique books since 1979 and established the MKimberly Press in 1984. She earned a BFA in Ceramic Sculpture at the University of Washington and an MFA at the University of Idaho. Her work can be found in over 85 public collections and museums including The Victoria and Albert, the J. Paul Getty Museum, The University of Washington Special Collections, The Albertson Library at Boise State University, and The Library of Congress. Mare has been a Library Fellow award winner from the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC and a Sally R Bishop Artist in Residence at the Center for Book Arts in New York. She is the President of the Book Arts Guild, and is on the Board of Directors for the College Book Arts Association.

The Rare Books Division holds examples of these techniques:

A Casual Commentary: front seat, u.s.a.
Marnie Powers-Torrey
Salt Lake City: UT: M. Powers-Torrey, 1999
N7433.4 P69 C37 1999

Typeface is Twentieth Century Medium Italic. Handset and printed on an Asbern letterpress. Photographs are gum bichromate prints, photolithographs, and intaglio prints from photopolymer plates. Edition of 15 copies, signed and numbered. University of Utah copy is no. 4.

: Powers-Torrey, A Casual Commentary, 1999

: Powers-Torrey, A Casual Commentary, 1999

: Powers-Torrey, A Casual Commentary, 1999

: Powers-Torrey, A Casual Commentary, 1999

Sojourn
Diane Fine
San Francisco, CA: Gravel Press; Plattsburgh, NY: Moonkosh Press, 2002
N7433.4 F55 S64 2002

: Fine, Sojourn, 2002

: Fine, Sojourn, 2002

: Fine, Sojourn, 2002

: Fine, Sojourn, 2002

You Are Invited – Student Readings

16 Wednesday Apr 2014

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Join students of Professor Lance Olsen’s fiction workshop (ENGL5510) as they present their short stories during a public reading.

One of the pieces being introduced will feature an illustration from Andreas Vesalius’ famous book of anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica. The short story, inspired by Vesalius’ revolutionary depictions of the female anatomy, addresses the often taboo topic of female sexuality. Lyuba Basin, Rare Books student assistant, used our copy of the 1555 edition of De Humani Corporis Fabrica as reference for her work, specifically focusing on the wonderfully detailed illustration of the dissected female body.

Thursday, April 17 & Tuesday, April 22
2-3:30PM
Two Creek Coffee located in the Frederick Albert Sutton Building on the campus of the University of Utah.

Vesalius, De Humani…, 1555

Book of the Week – The Earthly Paradise

14 Monday Apr 2014

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England, Golden, Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, Tennyson, vellum, William Morris, woodcut borders, woodcut initials

: Morris, The Earthly Paradise, 1896, The Wanderers

: Morris, The Earthly Paradise, 1896, The Earthly Paradise

: Morris, The Earthly Paradise, 1896, April

Earthly Paradise
William Morris (1834-1896)
Hammersmith, England: Kelmscott Press, 1896-97

A series of twenty-four tales, two for each month. Twelve tales are from classical sources; the other twelve from medieval Latin, French, and Icelandic origins. Earthly Paradise became one of the most popular works of the Victorian era. It was morally acceptable and read as a means of relaxation and escape from daily cares. For this work Morris was offered the poet laureateship upon the death of Tennyson. Morris refused the honor. Morris himself oversaw completion of the first two volumes, while the remaining six were printed by the trustees of the estate after his death.

Printed in Golden type in red and black. Illustrated with full-page woodcut borders and initials. The ten borders and four half-borders used in The Earthly Paradise do not appear in any other Kelmscott book. Bound in vellum with ties. Edition of two hundred and thirty-one copies.

Book of the Week – Types and Bookmaking: Containing Notes on the…

07 Monday Apr 2014

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book collector, bookmaking, bookplate, Boston, Bruce Rogers, D.B. Updike, Denmark, Estelle Doheny, Fred Anthoensen, Frederick William Anthoesen, Maine, morocco, Portland, Southworth Press, The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, type, type specimens, typographic, typographic ornaments, typography, United States

: Anthoensen, Types and Bookmaking, 1943, Title Page

: Anthoensen, Types and Bookmaking, 1943, Type

: Anthoensen, Types and Bookmaking, 1943, Decoration

Types and Bookmaking: Containing Notes on the…
Fred Anthoensen (1892-1969)
Portland, ME: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1943

Frederick William Anthoensen was born in Denmark, but came to the United States as an infant. He attended school in Portland, Maine. He became interested in printing under the influence of D.B. Updike and Bruce Rogers, both of Boston, and both heavy hitters of early US twentieth-century typography. In 1901, Anthoensen began working as a compositor for Southworth Press. Seventeen years later he became its managing director. In 1934, the name of the press changed its name to Southworth-Anthoenson Press. After 1944, it became Anthoensen Press. Anthoensen was recognized as an exemplary craftsman in his day.

Contains type specimens, typographic ornaments and flowers, and specimen pages, accompanied by a descriptive catalogue. Bound in full charcoal linen buckram with black morocco spine. Issued in slipcase. University of Utah copy contains bookplate of book collector Estelle Doheny.

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