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Book of the Week – New World Saints: a Collection of Twenty-five…

29 Monday Dec 2014

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Catherine Ferguson, Craig W. Jensen, Dante Monotype, Domestic Etching, Donna Piers, engravings, letterpress, line engravings, New Mexico, Pamela Smith, pochoir, Press of the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, Somerset Cream, triptychs, University of Utah, watercolor


New World Saints: a collection of twenty-five…
Catherine Ferguson
Santa Fe, NM: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1995
Z232.5 P7 F4 1995

Text by Spanish Colonial scholar Donna Piers. Pochoir by Palace Press staff. Text designed and printed letterpress by Pamela Smith. Illustrations from line engravings, hand-colored over a five year period. Twenty-six unbound die-cut sheets folded into triptychs set in Dante Monotype by Michael and Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York. Triptychs are made of Somerset Cream paper. Prints are done on Domestic Etching papers. Hand-coloring with watercolors and pochoir process. Housed in an arched, tan cloth-covered box designed with double drop-spine covers to open like the doors of a church. Lined with Italian decorative print and gold papers. Boards held together with a metal closure on front. Box by Craig W. Jensen. Edition of one hundred and fifty copies, signed by the artist, author, and printer. University of Utah copy is no. 69.

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Book of the Week – Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

22 Monday Dec 2014

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Chicago, Christmas, Dartmouth College, Denver Gillen, Gene Autry, J. Willard Marriott Library, Johnny Marks, Montgomery Ward, Robert Lewis May (1905-1976), Sue Epperson McCoy


Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Robert Lewis May (1905-1976)
Chicago: Montgomery Ward, 1939
First edition

This favorite Christmas story was written exclusively for Montgomery Ward & Co., which was looking for a strategy to encourage youngsters to visit the department store. The store had been buying and giving away coloring books as a Christmas gimmick and decided to save money by creating something similar, in-house.

Robert May, a thirty-four year old copywriter on the advertising staff, wrote the booklet as a give-away for children during the Christmas shopping season. May was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926 and joined Montgomery Ward in 1936. He was known to his colleagues for his unpublished children’s stories and limericks.

Rudolph was hugely popular (two and a half million copies were distributed in 1939 alone), and Montgomery Ward continued to publish it every Christmas until 1946, by which time six million copies had been given away. Because May had created the story as an employee of Montgomery Ward, he received no royalties. But in January 1947, May persuaded its corporate president to turn the copyright over to him. His financial future was assured.

May claimed that the success of Rudolph enabled him to put his six children through college. May quit his job in 1951 and spent many years managing his creation before returning to Montgomery Ward seven years later, where he worked until his retirement in 1971.

May sent a copy of Rudolph to his friend, songwriter Johnny Marks, who wrote the tune that made Gene Autry famous.

Forty-one color illustrations by Denver Gillen. This copy was given to Sue Epperson McCoy, five years old, in 1939, as a promotional from the Junction City, Kansas Montgomery Ward. She donated it to the J. Willard Marriott Library.

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Book of the Week – Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy…

17 Wednesday Dec 2014

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English, engraved plates, Freemason, Isaac Newton, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Latin, Leiden, London, philosophy, Royal Society, Willem Jacob s'Gravesande


Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy…
Willem Jacob s’Gravesande (1688-1742)
London: Printed for J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1720
First English edition
QC19 G73 1720

Written in Latin by Willem Jacob s’Gravesande, Mathematical elements… was first published in Leiden in 1720. Illustrated with thirty-three folded engraved plates, this edition also contains a publisher’s catalog at the end.

Willem Jacob s’Gravesande was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Leiden in 1715. A friend of Isaac Newton, s’Gravesande gained fame by being the first to teach Newtonian philosophy. Mathematical elements… was dedicated to Newton.

In 1734, s’Gravesande was promoted to chair of Philosophy. The Reverend John Theophilus Desaguliers, a member of the Royal Society, a Copley medal winner, inventor and Freemason, translated s’Gravesande’s book into English the same year it was first published in Leiden, apparently at s’Gravesande’s request. As was the practice in the eighteenth century, s’Gravesande constantly corrected and added to his work, each edition being an amplification of the first. The work went through six editions. s’Gravesande, who relied heavily on Newton’s Principia and Opticks, used a philosophical and well-argued method of justifying scientific truths by self-evidence and experimental verification.

 

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Books of the Week – Philip Zimmermann

08 Monday Dec 2014

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Arizona, gilded edges, HP Indigo, Lukeville, Mexican, Mexican immigrants, Mohawk Superfine, New Mexico, offset lithography, Phillip Zimmermann, Rhinebeck, Sonoran desert, southern Arizona, Spaceheater Editions, Tuscon, United States

 


Shelter
Philip Zimmermann
Rhinebeck, NY: Spaceheater Editions, 2006
N7433.4 Z54 S54 2006

Colored illustrations on long continuous strip, viewed through a 13 x 9 cm. hole in cut in the center of each page of text. Printed by HP Indigo digital printing on Mohawk Superfine archival paper. Handbound. Edition of fifty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 21.

 


Sanctus Sonorensis
Philip Zimmermann
Tucson, AZ: Spaceheater Editions, c2006-2009
N7433.4 Z54 S36 2009

From the colophon: “The cover image is part of the Sonoran desert in Southern Arizona about 50 miles from Lukeville, and just a couple of miles from the Mexican border. It is one of the most heavily trafficked and dangerous entry points for illegal Mexican immigrants entering the United States, and many die there each year from exposure and lack of water. The skyscapes are [sic] all photographed in New Mexico and Arizona during 2003 and 2004.” Self-covering board book with rounded and gilded edges in four-color offset lithography.

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Book of the Week – Spiral Story: A Creation Myth

01 Monday Dec 2014

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Paula Jull


SPIRAL STORY: A CREATION MYTH
Paula Jull
[United States]: P. Jull, 1996
N7433.4 J78 S65 1996

Printed on double leaves with mounted illustrations.

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