Book of the Week – OCCASIONAL REFLECTIONS UPON SEVERAL SVBJECTS…

23 Monday Nov 2015

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Jonathan Swift, London, Robert Boyle, Samuel Butler

Occasional Reflections Upon Several Svbjects…
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
London: Printed by W. Wilson for H. Herrington, 1665
First edition
PN6330 B65 1665

Occasional reflections was ridiculed by Jonathan Swift in A meditation upon a Broom-Stick and by Samuel Butler in An occasional reflection on Dr. Charleton’s Feeling a Dog’s Pulse at Gresham College. Robert Boyle, a founder of the Royal Society of London, identified “elements” and is considered the father of chemistry. He was interested in going beyond mere discourse about nature. Science could and would raise the levels of material existence. Let them laugh.

Book Arts Exhibition – Glimpse

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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A Fowl Alphabet, Alan James Robinson, Allison Milham, Allyn Hart, Becky Williams Thomas, book artists, Book Arts Program, bookbinding, bookmaking, Cheloniidae Press, Claire Taylor, collage, Crane Giamo, Easthampton, Emily Tipps, encaustics, Glenville, Illinois, intaglio printing, J. Willard Marriott Library, Japanese, Julianna Christie, Karen Hanmer, Keiji Shinohara, leather bindings, letterpress printing, Luise Poulton, Marnie Powers-Torrey, Massachusetts, Michelle Macfarlane, National Endowment for the Arts, Pamela Smith, paper decorating, papermaking, photo engraving, photography, printers, rare books, relief printing, Special Collections Gallery, Stacy Phillips, Suzanne Moore, The University of Utah, type, wood engravings

Rare Books is pleased to support the Book Arts Program with its historic, fine press, and artists’ books collections. Glimpse features these and many other book artists represented in our collections.

A FOWL ALPHABET
Alan James Robinson
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1986

Wood engravings by author. Lettering by Suzanne Moore. Title printed in brown and black; initials and headings printed in brown and gold. Issued in cloth clamshell box. Edition of fifty copies, signed. University of Utah copy is no. 36.

AAAAAZZZZZ
Karen Hanmer
Glenville, IL: Karen Hammer, 2002
N7433.4 H357 A6 2002

Housed in box. Title on box shows the letter “A” turning into the letter “Z.” Edition of eight copies. University of Utah copy is no. 6, signed by the author.

THE SPECTRUM A TO Z
Karen Hanmer
Glenview, IL: K. Hanmer, 2003
N7433.4 H357 S6 2003

Accordion-style alphabet book. Edition of twenty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 4.

PATRIOT ALPHABET
Karen Hanmer
Glenview, IL: K. Hanmer, 2004
N7433.4 H357 P37 2004

Karen Hanmer layers fragments of text and image, evoking personal memory within cultural context. Intimate but strong, her books are designed to be handled, their sculptural elements giving way to the physicality of reading the old-fashioned way, by turning a page.

Book of the Week – MILONGAS

09 Monday Nov 2015

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Ana Maria Moncalvo, Argentina, bandits, etchings, folksongs, Gabriel Rummonds, Jorge Luis Boges, letterpress, milongas, music, Samuel Cesar Palui, Schoeller blanco, sepia, tango, University of Utah

MILONGAS
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dos Amigos, 1983
PQ7797 B635 M55 1983

Milongas, or lyrics, are Argentinian folksongs, often dealing with the exploits of bandits, and sometimes set to the music of the tango. Illustrated with etchings printed in sepia and black by Ana Maria Moncalvo. Designed by Samuel Cesar Palui. Text hand set and letterpress printed in magenta and black. Issued in case. Bound loose in handmade Japanese green paper wrappers and housed in custom-made blue clamshell box. Edition of one hundred copies on Schoeller blanco, numbered 1 through 100. University of Utah copy is no. 19. Gift of Gabriel Rummonds.

Book of the Week – FIVE POEMS

02 Monday Nov 2015

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Camberwell Press, Camberwell School of Arts, Department of Graphic Arts, Emily Dickinson, Gefn Press, Khadi, Kozo, London, Plantin italic, poems, relief prints, Susan Johanknecht, University of Utah

FIVE POEMS
Susan Johanknecht
London: Gefn Press, 1989
N7433.4.J65 F5 1989

Poems by Emily Dickinson illustrated with seven hand-burnished relief prints on Kozo collaged onto Khadi pages, one hand-colored with gold paint. Poems handset in Plantin italic and printed damp by Susan Johanknecht at the Camberwell Press, Department of Graphic Arts, Camberwell School of Art. Bound in debossed Khadi covers. Edition of fifty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 47.

We Recommend – Craig Dworkin, CHAP. XXIV

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

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Craig Dworkin, David Wolske, English, ITC Founders Caslon, King's English Bookshop, Laurence Sterne, letterpress, Life and Opintions of Tristam Shandy, ligatures, photopolymer plates, Red Butte Press, Robert Buchert, Salt Lake City, Tryst Press, Utah

Craig Dworkin Reads at King’s English: CHAP. XXIV
Thursday, October 29, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
King’s English Bookshop/1511 South 1500 East/Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/craig-dworkin-alkali-and-chapter-xxiv

Craig Dworkin reads from the Red Butte Press publication CHAP. XXIV, at the King’s English Bookshop. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

In 1761, Laurence Sterne published The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy. Chapter XXV of the fourth volume begins, “No doubt, Sir, – there is a whole chapter wanting here – and a chasm of ten pages made in the book by it.”

A jump in pagination confirms that Chapter XXIV is missing.

Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Sterne’s birth, Craig Dworkin and the Red Butte Press provided the absent chapter – a single signature designed to fit neatly into the first edition. Dworkin’s interpolated text uses historic English words in which the letters “f” and “s” can be interchanged and remain legitimate. Each sentence is based on grammatical constructions found elsewhere in Sterne’s novel.

The type, ITC Founders Caslon, includes seven pre-existing ligatures and seven bespoke long-s ligatures created by the book designer, David Wolske. The book was letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on handmade paper with a Red Butte Press watermark. A typographically illustrated cover used the placement of each dash that appears in the text and externalizes the 18th century typesetters’ practice of using any available foundry dashes. The varying dash length and humorous interplay of the letters “f” and “s” call attention to potentialities of punctuation, spelling, and meaning.

CHAP. XXIV
Craig Dworkin
Salt Lake City, UT: Red Butte Press, 2013
N7433.4 D95 C43 2010z

Illustrations by David Wolske. Handmade papers by Robert Buchert, Tryst Press. Edition of three hundred and twenty-five numbered copies; twenty-six lettered copies hors de commerce; fourteen deluxe copies individually letterpress-printed with one of the ligatures that appear in the text, housed in custom enclosures.

Book of the Week – ROCK RODONDO

26 Monday Oct 2015

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Antarctic Whale-bird, blindstamped, Brown Pelican, Fabriano, Galapagos, Galapagos Penguin, Galapagos Storm Petrel, Herman Melville (1819-1891), New York, Philip Warner, Red Angel Press, Rock Rodondo, Ronald Keller, Swallow-tailed Gull, University of Utah, Waved Albatross, woodcut

ROCK RODONDO
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
New York: Red Angel Press, 1981
PS2384 .E62 1981

Blindstamped decoration of birds in flight on title and following leaf. A two-color woodcut of the Galapagos birds folds out vertically. Birds depicted include the Galapagos Penguin, Brown Pelican, Waved Albatross, Antarctic Whale-bird, Swallow-tailed Gull, and Galapagos Storm Petrel. Printed on dampened handmade Fabriano paper. Designed, illustrated, and printed by Ronald Keller. Cover art by Philip Warner. Bound in full tan cloth, partially painted in tan and gray to resemble breaking waves. The front pastedown is a cast paper sculpture of the rock and birds in flight. Edition of one hundred copies signed by the printer. University of Utah copy is number 98.

We Recommend — Peter Cole poetry reading at Weller Book Works!

21 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Peter Cole, poetry, Weller Book Works

Thursday, October 22

Poetry reading
6-7:30PM
Weller Book Works
Trolley Square

This event is free and open to the public.

Join Us! – “Alphabets of Creation”

20 Tuesday Oct 2015

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Albrecht Dürer, alphabets, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Publishers Association, Arabic, Berkeley, Christian, creation, Gould Auditorium, Grolier Club, Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, Gyles Calvert, Harold Bloom, Hebrew, J. Willard Marriott Library, Jacob Behmen, Jakob Bohme (1575-1624), Jelaluddin Rumi, Jerusalem, libraries, London, M. Simmons, MacArthur Fellowship, Miryam Bartov, Muslim, mysticism, National Jewish Book Award, New Jersey, New York, Paterson, PEN Translation Prize, Peter Cole, poetics, poetry, Quelquefois Press, rare books, Rare Books Classroom, Seattle, Sefer Otiyot Shel Rabi Akiba, Sinai, Spain, Special Collections Gallery, Tabula Rasa Press, Tel-Aviv, The Nation, The University of Utah, Zohar

“Alphabets of Creation: Libraries, Mysticism, Poetics”

How might archives give rise to art? Is obsession with the letter a threat to spirit? When does the lamp shed light on life, and when does it simply make learning stink? In a playful and probing presentation, poet and translator Peter Cole will explore the role of language, libraries, and mystical linkage in the process of poetic creation.

Peter Cole has been called an “inspired writer” (The Nation) and “one of the most vital poets of his generation” (Harold Bloom). He is the author of four books of poetry. Cole’s translation from Hebrew and Arabic, The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, c. 950-1492, received the National Jewish Book Award and the American Publishers Association’s Award for Book of the Year. He has received numerous honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the PEN Translation Prize. In 2007 he was named a MacArthur fellow. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Cole now divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, where he tends small gardens that fill his poetry.

Wednesday, October 21

Lecture
5:30-6:30PM
Gould Auditorium, Level 1
J. Willard Marriott Library
The University of Utah

Reception, book signing, and Rare Books presentation
6:30-8PM
Special Collections Gallery & Rare Books Classroom, Level 4
J. Willard Marriott Library
The University of Utah

Free and open to the public.

These pieces and others from our rare book collections helped inspire Peter. How will they inspire you?

THE EPISTLES OF JACOB BEHMEN
Jakob Böhme (1575-1624)
London: Printed by M. Simmons, for G. Calvert, 1649
BV5080 B6 1649

SEFER OTIYOT SHEL RABI AKIBA
BM517 O8 1708

OF THE JUST SHAPING OF LETTERS
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
New York: Grolier Club, 1917
NK3615 D7313 1917

ALEF BET
Miryam Barṭov
Tel-Aviv: Sinai, 1958
PZ90 H3 B323 1958

THE ALPHABET OF CREATION: AN ANCIENT LEGEND FROM THE ZOHAR
Seattle: Tabula Rasa Press, 1993
N7433.3 A46 1993

ONE-HANDED BASKET WEAVING
Jelaluddin Rumi
Berkeley: Quelquefois Press, 1993
PK6480 A21 1993

Book of the Week – Walden; or, Life in the Woods

19 Monday Oct 2015

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American, Baker-Andrew, Boston, engraved, environmentalism, first edition, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), individualism, John G. Chandler, lithography, nature, S. W. Chandler & Bro., Samuel W. Chandler, self-reliance, Sophia E. Thoreau (1819-1876), Ticknor and Fields, title page, vignette, Walden, Walden Pond, wood engraving

WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854
First edition
PS3048 A1 1854

Embraced today as a precursor of the modern environmentalist movement, Walden is one of the most celebrated examples of American individualism and self-reliance. Thoreau’s writing emphasizes an appreciation of nature for itself rather than as a resource to be exploited – a sharp departure from the prevailing economic and religious views of the period. The engraved plan of Walden Pond inserted at page 307 was drawn by Thoreau, a professional surveyor, and lithographed by S. W. Chandler & Bro. (Samuel W. & John G. Chandler) of Boston. The vignette of Thoreau’s hut on the title-page was engraved in wood by the firm of Baker-Andrew after a sketch by Sophia E. Thoreau (1819-1876), the author’s youngest sister. Sophia adored her brother, encouraging and aiding him during his lifetime and later serving as his literary executor. Unfortunately, as an artist she was not particularly talented. Her sketch has been condemned as a feeble version of the actual structure. Eight pages of publisher’s ads (dated May, 1854) inserted between back endpapers. Original brown vertically-ribbed cloth, stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Original yellow coated endpapers. Edition of two thousand copies.

Save the Date! – Peter Cole Lecture

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Gould Auditorium, MacArthur Award, Marriott Library, Peter Cole, rare books, Special Collections Gallery

“Alphabets of Creation: Libraries, Mysticism, Poetics”
a lecture by poet Peter Cole

How might archives give rise to art? Is obsession with the letter a threat to spirit? When does the lamp shed light on life, and when does it simply make learning stink? In a playful and probing presentation, MacArthur Award-winning poet and translator Peter Cole will explore the role of language, libraries, and mystical linkage in the process of poetic creation.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30pm
Marriott Library Gould Auditorium
Free and open to the public

6:30 – 8:00pm
Reception, book signing, and Rare Books presentation
Special Collections Gallery, level four
Free and open to the public

OPEN BOOK

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