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Book of the week — The Poems of Shakespeare

19 Monday Sep 2016

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So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
— William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII

The Poems of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1939
PR2841 A2 K5 1939

Edited by George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Harvard University.

Overbrook Press was founded by investment banker, civic leader, and bibliophile Frank Altschul (1887-1981), who had pursued printing as a hobby since childhood. In 1934 he was approached by designer Margaret B. Evans, who had been working for Ashlar Press, which was closing. Altschul set up the Ashlar press in an abandoned outbuilding on his 450-acre estate, Overbrook Farms, in Stamford, Connecticut. He hired Evans as designer and compositor and John MacNamara as pressman. Overbrook Press printed an eclectic mix of books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera, emphasizing technical expertise and craftsmanship. The press engaged contemporary book designers and artists such as Daniel Updike, Jean Hugo, Bruce Rogers, Ann Simons, Valenti Angelo, and Thomas Maitland Cleland. Overbrook Press closed in 1969.

The Poems of Shakespeare is one of its most ambitious projects. It’s decorative initials were designed by Bruce Rogers. Text handset and letterpress printed in red and black with Lucretia type on handmade Cromwell grey paper. The press offered copies for sale, but most of them were given as gifts by Alschul. Copies for sale to the public were bound in three quarter morocco and slipcased, but more than a third of the edition was never bound, presumably to accommodate individual binding tastes.

University of Utah copy is bound in quarter brown morocco over marbled boards with gilt-lettered spine, issued uncut, in publisher’s slipcase. Edition of one hundred and fifty copies.

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Shakespeare is coming! The First Folio arrives at the City Library in October.

 

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Book of the week — Fleur-de-neige et d’autres contes de Grimm

01 Monday Aug 2016

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artist, Ave Maria, Briar Rose, Brothers Grimm, color plates, Copenhagen, Danish, fairy tale, Fantasia, French, Hansel and Gretel, Hollywood, Kay Nielsen, marbled boards, Night on Bald Mountain, Paris, Royal Danish Theatre, Rumplestiltskin, The Brave Little Tailor, The Goose Girl, The Juniper Tree, The Six Swans, Walt Disney Company

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Fleur-de-neige et d’autres contes de Grimm
Paris: L’Edition d’art, 1929

French translation of twelve Brothers Grimm fairy tales, including “Hansel and Gretel,” “Rumplestiltskin,” “The Fisherman and His Wife,” “Briar Rose,” “The Goose Girl,” “The Little Brave Tailor,” “The Six Swans,” and “The Juniper Tree.” Illustrated with full-page mounted color plates by Danish artist Kay Nielsen 91886-1957).

Kay Nielsen, known best for his haunting, whimsical fairy tale illustrations, also painted stage scenery for the Royal Danish Theatre. In the late 1930s, Nielsen left Copenhagen for a career in Hollywood. He worked for the Walt Disney Company from 1937 to 1941. For Disney, Nielsen illustrated “Ave Maria” and “Night on Bald Mountain,” sequences for the movie Fantasia. Bound in three quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers and raised spine.

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Marie Curie — The Poster and Rare Books

02 Friday Oct 2015

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Continuum, The Magazine of the University of Utah features The Curie Poster.

“In the southwest corner of the University of Utah’s Thatcher Building for Biological and Biophysical Chemistry, The Curie Poster is displayed as a tribute to Utah women in chemistry.”

Read the Continuum article

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Visit the poster in the Thatcher Building for Biological and Biophysical Chemistry.

Hold the first edition of Marie Curie’s Traite de Radioactivite, Paris, 1910, in Rare Books.

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Traite de Radioactivite
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1910
First edition
QC721 C98 1910

Marie Sklodowaska Curie received degrees in math and physics in Paris. She earned her doctorate in 1903. Her husband, Pierre, a professor of physics, became involved in her research. They, along with Henri Becquerel, were awarded a Nobel Prize in physics for their work that same year. In 1906, after the death of her husband, she was offered his chair in physics at the Sorbonne. In 1911 she was awarded a second Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Traite is Curie’s fullest statement on radioactivity, a word she created for a concept that she invented and defined. Henri Becquerel discovered of a type of radiation discharged from a uranium compound that was capable of passing through sheets of matter opaque to ordinary light. Curie then began a systematic examination of a large number of chemical elements and their compounds to test whether they possessed the “radioactive” property of uranium. Only one other element, thorium, was found to show this effect to a degree comparable with that of uranium.

After testing the various compounds of uranium, Curie discovered that radioactivity was an atomic property, i.e., the activity was proportional to the amount of uranium present and was independent of its combination with other substances. In trying to isolate this radioactive property from the compounds, Curie isolated the new elements polonium and radium.

In Traite she provided a detailed review of discoveries she made and confirmed the connection between matter and electricity. The first volume contains detailed descriptions of how she measured radiation, with numerous text illustrations of the instruments. In the second volume, Curie discussed the nature of radiation, the heat and various phenomena associated with radiation and the varieties of radioactive substances. The final chapter concerns radiations of the sun and atmosphere.

With a frontispiece portrait of Pierre Curie, seven plates, five of which are photographic, and nearly two hundred diagrams. Bound in contemporary three-quarter brown cloth with green morocco spine label and marbled boards and endpapers.

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Book of the Week – Orley Farm

28 Monday Jul 2014

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Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
London: Champman and Hall, 1862
First edition

Bound from the monthly issues, with the original wrappers and ads bound in. Many of the wrappers have a contemporary ownership signature. The issues were illustrated with forty engraved plates by the Pre-Raphaelite artist, John Everett Millais (1829-1896). University of Utah copy is bound in late nineteenth-century straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines, top edges gilt.

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Book of the Week – The Epic of Gilgamesh

04 Monday Mar 2013

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The Epic of Gilgamesh, 1992 Cover
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, 1992

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Episode One, Gilgamesh & Enkidu
Bill Griffiths
Market Drayton, Shropshire: Tern Press, 1992
PJ3771 G5 E5 1992

Set in Mesopotamia in the third century B.C., this is the tale of the legendary, semi-divine Sumerian hero-king. Translated into balanced verse by Bill Griffiths. Illustrated with color woodcuts by Nicholas Parry. Letterpress from Bodoni type on Zerkall paper. Sewn into marbled boards by Mary Parry. Edition of ninety-five copies. University of Utah copy is no. 38, signed.

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