14 Tuesday Jan 2014
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13 Monday Jan 2014
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Organum, Sive Logicae Tractationes Omnes
Aristotle
Francofurti, Excudebat A. Wechelus, sibi & T. Guarino, 1577
PA389 O7 1577
Of all the classical Greek scholars, the most influential was Aristotle. He defined for the first time basic fields of inquiry: logic, physics, political science, economics, psychology, rhetoric, and ethics. In the process, Aristotle also established a method of study, based upon deductive reasoning, which profoundly influenced scholarship for nearly two thousand years.
The Organum is a collection of four Aristotelian treatises on inductive and especially deductive reasoning. This edition is a new and corrected version of the famous edition done by the learned French humanist Nicolas de Gouchy (ca. 1520-1572) in Portugal, where he was teaching Greek at Coimbra.
Greek text. Title also in Greek. Widely scattered underscoring or brief neat annotations in an early hand.
07 Tuesday Jan 2014
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Abecedarian Gallery, Artists' Book Cornucopia, J. Willard Marriott Library, Luise Poulton, rare books, Special Collections
Artists’ Book Cornucopia is an annual juried exhibition held at Abecedarian Gallery each spring. The exhibition is open to any form of artists’ publication with the exception of self-published on-demand bookworks.
Regardless of the juror’s decision, all submissions are reviewed by gallery staff with an eye towards inclusion in future curated and invitational exhibitions.
A printable version of these guidelines can be downloaded as a PDF here.
For more information and to apply visit abecedarian gallery’s website.
Entries will be juried by Luise Poulton, Managing Curator, Rare Books, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Up to $1500 in purchase and exhibition awards will be awarded at gallery director’s discretion.
First prize is a solo show in Abecedarian Gallery’s Reading Room Spring 2015.
06 Monday Jan 2014
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A Winter Garden
Claire Lawson-Hall
Marcham: Alembic Press, 2001
SB457.6 S383 2001
Written, typeset, printed, and bound by the author. Etchings by Muriel Mallows. Edition of one hundred copies. University of Utah copy is no. 47.
30 Monday Dec 2013
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Winter Wreath
Leslie Norris
Provo, UT: Tryst Press, 2000
PR6027 O44 W56 2000
Type is ATF Garamond. Binding by Christopher McAfee. Edition of 140 copies, nos. 1-10 bound by Christopher McAfee. University of Utah copy is no. 4, signed by author and printer.
23 Monday Dec 2013
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A Christmas Psalm 1935
William Saroyan (1908-1981)
San Francisco, CA: Privately printed for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc. by the Grabhorn Press, 1935
First edition
Z232.5 G7 S37 1935
A keepsake printed for the San Francisco book shop Gelber, Lilienthal, and Saroyan’s second book.
Edition of two hundred copies. University of Utah copy is no. 6, signed by William Saroyan.
16 Monday Dec 2013
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Ancient Spanish Ballads, chromolithographs, Henry Warren, Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament, William Shakespeare
Scenes from the Winter’s Tale
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
London: Day and Son, 1866
PR2883 S28 1866
This is the first edition of this pictorial retelling of Shakespeare’s stylized play set in ancient Greece. Both text and illustration were designed as a single entity by Owen Jones, united by the use of one color scheme and type of ornament on each two-page spread. The decorative motifs used are derived from historical styles illustrated in Jones’ The Grammar of Ornament. This book is illustrated with forty-eight chromolithographs, illuminated by Owen Jones over figures by Henry Warren. Jones and Warren began their collaboration in 1841 with Ancient Spanish Ballads (1841). The books they worked on together provide an integration of ornament, drawn text, and illustrated figure unique in the history of printing.
Text and facing illustrations are set in broad decorative borders. Bound in publisher’s brown cloth. Front cover is blocked in gold, with elaborate borders in red and purple and central gilt illustration of a flowering plant; the same decoration is repeated in blind on the back cover. Title is gilt on spine, with added decoration. All edges gilt.
Shakespeare is coming! The First Folio will arrive at the City Library in October.
09 Monday Dec 2013
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California, Carl Dern, Jungle Garden Press, Marie Dern, metal sculpture, Provo, Salt Lake City, Utah, Winter Orchard
Winter Orchard
Carl and Marie Dern
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 2005
N7433.4 D444 W5 2005
Carl and Marie Dern were born and raised in Utah, where they met as children. Winter Orchard was their response to the orchards they passed as they drove between Salt Lake City and Provo. Carl and Marie moved to California where Carl, a sculptor, opened a studio and Marie began collaborating with poets and authors and producing fine press books. “Jungle Garden Press” was named after their backyard. Many of its editions, including Winter Orchard, incorporate pieces of metal sculpture by Carl. Designed, printed and bound by Marie, Winter Orchard includes a tree made of steel, brass, and tin. Box designed by Marie Dern. Edition of sixty copies. University of Utah copy is no. 8, signed by Carl and Marie Dern.
02 Monday Dec 2013
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Alice Paul, Anagram Press, broadsides, Chandler O'Leary, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Jessica Spring, postcards, Springtide Press, women
FEMINIST BROADSIDES
Chandler O’Leary
Tacoma, WA: Springtide Press: Anagram Press, 2008-2011
Twelve color postcards reproducing a series of feminist broadsides created by O’Leary and Jessica Spring celebrating women such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Alice Paul and others.
25 Monday Nov 2013
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To the New Day We Offer Praise and Thanksgiving for This Moment
Paul Johnson
Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England: P. Johnson, 2007
N7443.4 J664 T58 2007
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