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Book of the Week – Aged, Disabled, and Destitute: what shall we do for our broken veterans?

11 Monday Nov 2013

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Agricultural College of Utah, Brigham Young College, John R. Park, Joshua Henry Paul, Latter-day Saints University, pension, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Herald, United States, University of Deseret


Aged, Disabled, and Destitute: what shall we do for our broken veterans?
J. H. Paul (1863-1939)
Salt Lake City, UT: s.n., 1930?
HD7105.35 U6 P38 1930

Joshua Henry Paul was the President of the Latter-day Saints University of Salt Lake City, a theological school which included high school, normal, business and college course of study. He studied at the University of Deseret, under John R. Park. In 1889 he became associate editor of the “Salt Lake Herald,” but resigned to become president of the Brigham Young College at Logan, which he left for the presidency of the Agricultural College of Utah. After he retired he became active in the movement for an old-age pension in the United States.

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Book of the Week – The Morning Road

04 Monday Nov 2013

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Alden Noble, Armour Institute, Blue Sky Press, bookmaking, Chicago, fine press, Fred Langworthy, handmade, Hyde Park, Thomas Wood Stevens, William Morris

Stevens, The Morning Road, 1902, Cover
Stevens, The Morning Road, 1902, Title Page
Stevens, The Morning Road, 1902, Poems

The Morning Road
Thomas Wood Stevens (1880- – 1942)
Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1902
PS3537 T475 M67 1902

Drawing from the great number of Chicago artists and writers of the time, three ambitious young men, Fred Langworthy, Tom Stevens, and Alden Noble – all students at the new Armour Institute – produced almost fifty books and a monthly magazine, under the name of The Blue Sky Press of Hyde Park, between 1899 and 1907.  The publications, part of the international renaissance of bookmaking led by William Morris, represent a successful press producing handmade limited editions and a significant chapter in the history of American fine press in the early twentieth century.

 

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Book of the Week – The Raven

28 Monday Oct 2013

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Edgar Allen Poe, Elihu Vedder, Gustave Dore, Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore…
Sorrow for the lost Lenore
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884

Commentary by Edmund C. Stedman (1833-1908). Title vignette by Elihu Vedder (1836-1923), depicting Poe and Doré. The cover illustration is by Dora Wheeler. Illustrated by Gustave Doré (1832-1883).

Paul Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg. He became a book illustrator in Paris. His commissions included work for editions of Rabelais, Balzac and Dante. In 1853, he was asked to illustrate the works of Lord Byron. The success of this edition led to other work for British publishers, including an edition of the English Bible.

In 1882, Doré took his only commission from the United States, for this edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven. This is the first edition of Dore’s final illustrated book, his only commissioned work by an American publisher. The book contains twenty-four full page folio wood-engravings and two vignettes. His illustrations were based on what he imagined as “the enigma of death and the hallucination of an inconsolable soul.”

Doré died in 1883, just as he was finishing his Raven engravings, at the early age of 51. This edition was published simultaneously in England and in America in December 1883. The British edition lists the date as 1883 on its title page and the American edition lists 1884, but they came out at the same time. The work was commissioned by the American publisher Harper & Brothers.

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Book of the Week – PROPHET

21 Monday Oct 2013

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Annie Okon, Ravenpress, scroll


PROPHET
Anne Okon
Lake City, Colo: Ravenpress, 1998

Poem printed on scroll mounted in wooden frame with hinged cover. Edition of 12 copies, signed by poet and bookmaker.

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Book of the Week – An Imperfect Solution

14 Monday Oct 2013

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cast paper, miniature book

D’Ambrosio, An Imperfect Solution, 1997
D’Ambrosio, An Imperfect Solution, 1997
D’Ambrosio, An Imperfect Solution, 1997

An Imperfect Solution
D’Ambrosio
Phoenix, AZ: Studio D’Ambrosio, c1997
N7433,4 D34 I46 1997

Poem printed on nine mounted pages. A miniature book presented in five boxes bound in a series between two covers with linking text. The boxes contain objects such as sea shells, pearls, turquoise, silver, dried flowers, silk flowers, exotic papers, cast paper back lit with a light bulb and replaceable battery and red coral. Edition of fifty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 47.

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Book of the Week – Harmonia Macrocosmica

07 Monday Oct 2013

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Andreas Cellarius, astronomers, astronomy, atlas, burins, cartography, cherubs, compasses, Copernicus, Dutch, engraving, Europe, Galileo, Gerald Valk, gravers, illustrations, Jan Jansson, Pieter Schenck, Pope Paul V, printing press, Ptolemy, transits, Tycho Brahe

Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661
Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661
Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661

Harmonia Macrocosmica
Andreas Cellarius
Amsterdam: Jansson, 1661
Second edition
QB41 C39

The Celestial Atlas of Harmony was published in varying formats in 1660, 1661, 1666, and 1708.  Very few copies of the first edition of 1660 survive.  (One known copy is held by the British Museum). The Harmonia Macrocosmica, a summary of pre-Newtonian astronomy, compares the various cosmological theories up to and of that time, including those of Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, and Copernicus.

The geocentric theories of Ptolemy, suggesting that the earth is the center of the universe, are contrasted with those of Copernicus, who put the sun at the center of our solar system. Tycho Brahe’s theory attempted to unify the two. Brahe’s version shows the sun revolving around the earth and the rest of the planets revolving around the sun.

The book also has sections on the Earth’s climate zones, the sizes of the sun, moon, and planets, and the constellations of the zodiac. It is this broad overview of astronomical thought that kept the book from being banned under strictures put in place by Pope Paul V in 1616. These same strictures put Galileo under house arrest for the rest of his life after the printing of his Dialogo (1632), which was based on Copernican theory.

Andreas Cellarius was the rector of a college in the northern Netherlands. The printer, Jan Jansson, was one of the preeminent publishers of his time. Both art and science were applied to this production, with discoveries heralded by imaginative images as well as observed fact. Cheerful cherubs, floating over head earnest astronomers hold transits and compasses. The first edition was extremely popular, prompting the second edition.

The second edition of the atlas contains twenty-nine lavishly designed and hand-colored engraved plates, some of the finest examples of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography in existence. The technique of engraving began in ancient times as a way to decorate objects, particularly of metal. After the development of the printing press in Europe in 1450, engraving became a way to create high quality illustrations which retained precise detail, even after multiple impressions. Specialized tools, known as “burins” and “gravers” of various sizes and shapes were used to cut away the surface of a metal plate. The 1708 reissue bears the engraved names of Gerald Valk and Pieter Schenck on each plate, although not one line had been changed.

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Book of the Week – A Letter of Columbus

01 Tuesday Oct 2013

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Anthony Rice, Christopher Columbus, David Citino, Logan Elm Press, monoprints, Ohio State University, Spain

Citino, A Letter of Columbus, 1990, Title
Citino, A Letter of Columbus, 1990
Citino, A Letter of Columbus, 1990

A Letter of Columbus
David Citino
Ohio State University: Logan Elm Press, 1990

Poem adapted from the letter Christopher Columbus wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella on February 15, 1493, as he was returning to Spain from his first voyage to the “New World.” Illustrated with monoprints by Anthony Rice. Issued in paper-covered slipcase with inlaid cast paper bas-relief. Edition of one hundred and thirty signed and numbered copied. University of Utah copy is no. 11.

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Book of the Week – Mesmer: Secrets of the Human Frame

23 Monday Sep 2013

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Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Daniel Kelm, Freud, Granary Books, Jill Jevne, Lori Spencer, pop-up, Toni Dove, University of Utah, Wide Awake Garage

Dove, Mesmer, 1993
Dove, Mesmer, 1993
Dove, Mesmer, 1993

Mesmer: Secrets of the Human Frame
Toni Dove
New York: Granary Books, 1993
N7433.4 D675 M4 1993

Texts by Freud and others. First mounted as a computerized slide and sound installation in the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage in 1990. Presented as a radio piece in the 1991 New American radio series, then as an essay in the summer of 1992 edition of the n.y.u. drama journal. Using transparent and opaque metallic papers (including a three-dimensional centerfold pop-up), this book’s many layers create a rich and densely visual reading experience. Printed offset in several shades of metallic ink by Lori Spencer at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts. Bound in perforated metal boards with screen mesh and iridescent plastic fly leaves by Daniel Kelm and staff at the Wide Awake Garage. Issued in slipcase by Jill Jevne covered with silver leaf. Edition of sixty copies, ten hors de commerce. University of Utah copy is no. 24.

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Book of the Week – A Poet’s Alphabet of Influences

16 Monday Sep 2013

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Bonnie Sucec, Everett L. Cooley, J. Willard Marriott Library, Mark Strand, Red Butte Press, University of Utah

Strand, A Poet’s Alphabet of Influences, 1994, G
Strand, A Poet’s Alphabet of Influences, 1994, H

A Poet’s Alphabet of Influences
Mark Strand (1934- 2014)
Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press, c1993

Drawings by Bonnie Sucec. Fine press book from the Red Butte Press, University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Printed under the direction of Everett L. Cooley. Issued in a linen-bound case. Edition of 75 copies, signed by poet and artist. University of Utah copies are no. 20 and no. 27.

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Book of the Week – The Garden

09 Monday Sep 2013

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accordion, double leaves, gilt, handset, Inanna Press, Maureen Cummins, printed, Vandercook Universal I, woodcut, woodcuts

Cummins, The Garden, 1993, Title Page
Cummins, The Garden, 1993, Unicorn
Cummins, The Garden, 1993, Planets


The Garden: A Meditation on Man and Nature
Maureen Cummins (1963-)
New York: Inanna Press, 1993

Maureen Cummins was born in New York and received a BFA from Cooper Union School of Art in printmaking and book arts. Her imprint, Inanna Press, specializes in literature of the east. Inanna Press books are handset and printed on a Vandercook Universal I. Illustrated with thirty hand-colored woodcuts. Printed on double leaves. Accordion bound with patterned paper boards and a beige cloth spine lettered in gilt. Issued in beige buckram-bound slipcase with mounted woodcut illustration on the front. Edition of 30 copies, signed. University of Utah copy is no. 17.

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