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To Thee I Lift Up My Eyes
Paul Johnson
Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England: P. Johnson, 2002
N7443.4 J664 T58 2002
Book of the Week – To Thee I Lift Up My Eyes
24 Monday Nov 2014
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Book of the Week – Direction of the Road
11 Tuesday Nov 2014
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Aaron Johnson, anamorphic art, Canada, Foolscap Press, Le Papeterie Saint-Armand, Leonardo da Vinci, Montreal, Santa Cruz, woodcut
Direction of the Road
Ursula K. Le Guin
Santa Cruz, CA: Foolscap Press, 2007
Short story printed on white linen paper made by Le Papeterie Saint-Armand paper mill in Montreal, Canada. Binding is Saint-Armand’s Green Umbrella cover paper. Woodcut by Aaron Johnson. The woodcut is seen by using a reflective polymer mirror in a technique called anamorphic art, first recorded in a codex of Leonardo da Vinci. Book, mirror and woodcut housed in cloth-covered portfolio box covered in green Japanese cloth. Edition of one hundred and twenty, signed by the author and the artist. University of Utah copy is no. 53.
Book of the Week – Nowhere to Go
04 Tuesday Nov 2014
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Alan Loney, Hahnemuhle German Etching, Inge Bruggeman, INK!-A Press, Joanna type, letterpress, photopolymer plates, Portland, University of Utah, watercolor
Nowhere to Go
Alan Loney (b. 1940)
Portland, OR: INK-A! Press, 2009
PR9639.3 L6 N69 2009
From the publisher: “This book…is an attempt at capturing the beauty, brevity, and fragility of life through words, image, and structure.” Poem letterpress printed from handset 14 point Joanna type. Illustrated with hand-processed photopolymer plates painted with watercolor on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper. Issued in linen-covered case. Book production by Inge Bruggeman. Edition of thirty copies plus five numbered artists proof copies. University of Utah copy is no. 15, signed by the poet and the artist.
Book of the Week – Good and Evil in the Garden
27 Monday Oct 2014
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Barbara Hodgson, British Columbia, engravings, gampi, Garamont, Heavenly Monkey, HM Text, Reg Lissel, Rollin Milroy, Shinsuke Minegushi, Simone Mynen, University of Utah, Vancouver, Washington handpress
GOOD AND EVIL IN THE GARDEN
Barbara Hodgson
Vancouver, British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey, 2003
First edition
Designed by the author. Illustrated with engravings by Shinsuke Minegishi printed from the blocks on gampi. Typeface is Garamont. Printed on damp HM Text, an all-cotton paper made by Reg Lissel with a Washington handpress by Rollin Milroy. Issued in slipcase made by Simone Mynen. Edition of fifty copies, signed by the author and the artist. University of Utah copy is no. 24.
Book of the Week – Madoc
20 Monday Oct 2014
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America, Azteca, English, engraved, Indians, Lake Poets, London, Madoc, Mandan, marbled endpapers, Missouri River, morocco, North Dakota, Ohio River, poem, poet, poet laureate, Robert Southey, Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Susquehanna River, United States, utopian community, Welsh
MADOC
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1805
First edition
PR5464 M2 1805
Robert Southey was an English poet, a follower of the Romantic Movement, one of the “Lake Poets.” He was appointed poet laureate in 1813. Together with his good friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), he planned to found a utopian community on the Susquehanna River in the United States. While this plan never came to fruition, it is probable that Madoc was inspired by this dream. The four hundred and forty-nine page poem, accompanied by one hundred and four pages of notes is the story of a Welsh king, who, around 1169, settled on the Missouri River in America and founded a great race of Indians, the “Aztecas.” The legend of Madoc is more familiarly associated with the Mandan tribe of North Dakota. During the eighteenth century, white explorers and trappers heard stories of a small, peaceful tribe living in Western North Dakota, some of whom had blue eyes, blonde hair and spoke Welsh. It was believed that this tribe was descended from a Welsh settlement on the Ohio River in the mid-fourteenth century. Engraved title-page. Bound in contemporary three-quarter green morocco with marbled endpapers and edges.
Book of the Week – Ladies’ Companion
14 Tuesday Oct 2014
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education, Lyman Gale, manners, marriage, religion, Spy Office, Worcester
Ladies’ Companion: containing first, politeness of…
Lyman Gale, compiler
Worcester: printed at the Spy Office, 1824
First edition
BJ1681 L15 1824
Sections include lessons on manners, education, religion, marriage and “Fables for the Female Sex.” From the preface, “In offering this work to the public, the compiler was actuated by a desire to place before the female sex, some rules of conduct, and traits of character, which she deemed essential, in order to render their lives useful and pleasant, and make them amiable and agreeable, to those with whom they associate here; and to point out to them, the inestimable value of religion and virtue…” Bound in contemporary mottled sheep with gild burgundy morocco label.
Book of the Week – East of Eden
07 Tuesday Oct 2014
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American, Cain and Abel, Civil War, East of Eden, John Steinbeck, New York, Nobel Prize for Literature, Viking Press, World War I
East of Eden
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
New York: Viking Press, 1952
First edition
PS3537 T3234 E18
This is the story of two American families between the Civil War and World War I. Of this retelling of the tale of Cain and Abel, John Steinbeck wrote, “[it] has everything in it I have been able to learn about my art or craft or profession in all these years…I think everything else I have written has been…practice for this.” He later called the novel, “the story of my country and the story of me.”
A contemporary reviewer wrote, “Steinbeck is never dull and, even if you miss his message, you’ll not be bored. There is only one Steinbeck and no one writes about ‘his people’ as well.” However, the novel was not generally well-accepted by most reviewers at the time, who judged it heavy-handed and pedantic.
Ten years later, Steinbeck would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. East of Eden, published in September of 1952 was number one on the bestseller list by November of that year. It has never gone out of print.
Book of the Week – Gray’s Elegy
29 Monday Sep 2014
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architect, chromolithography, Crystal Palace, designer, embossed, English, illustration, interior designer, leather, London, New York, Owen Jones, Thomas Gray
Gray’s Elegy
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
London, New York: Longman. Wiley and Putnam, 1846
First edition
PR3502 E5 1846
Illuminated by Owen Jones in his characteristic spidery style, this is one of the earliest examples of chromolithography, a method of book illustration that Jones was instrumental in popularizing. Owen Jones was an English architect and designer. His work on the interior of the Crystal Palace and for the Great Exhibition of 1851 brought his name as an interior designer into prominence. This is the first book issued in a kind of binding heretofore generally reserved for illuminated books – deeply embossed to imitate carved wood. The embossing was built up underneath the leather as well as from the top.
Book of the Week – Laboulaye’s Fairy Book
22 Monday Sep 2014
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American, drawings, Edouard Laboulaye, English, fairy tales, French, Harper, Mary Louise Booth, New York, pen-and-ink
Laboulaye’s Fairy Book. Fairy tales of all Nations
Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883)
New York: Harper, 1867
First edition in English
PN6071 F15 L33 1867
Translated from French into English by Mary Louise Booth (1831-1889). Edouard Laboulaye added a special preface to this American edition. Twelve tales are included. Illustrated with black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings.
Book of the Week – The American Ladies’ Memorial: an Indispensable…
15 Monday Sep 2014
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American, arrangements, behaviour, Boston, Cornhill, embroidery, etiquette, floral, guide, illustrations, lacework, ladies, lady, memorial, millinery, patterns, spine, toilette, woodcut, wrappers
The American Ladies’ Memorial: an Indispensable…
Boston: Published at 60 ½ Cornhill, 1850
First edition
HQ1221 A534 1850
A guide to acceptable behavior for nineteenth-century American ladies, with emphasis on acceptable occupations and amusements. From this little book, the lady may learn about etiquette, embroidery, lacework, dress-making, millinery, floral arrangements, toilette and much, much more. The lady is helped with woodcut illustrations throughout, including numerous embroidery and lacework patterns. Yellow printed wrappers, stitched at the spine.
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