DE RERUM NATURA LIBROS SEX, AD EXEMPLARIUM… Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BCE – ca. 55 BCE) Londini: Impensis editoris, typis A. Hamilton, 1796-7 PA6482 A2 1796 oversize De Rerum Natura is the only surviving work of Lucretius. It is a didactic poem in six books, in which the...
QUAE PRAESENTI ENCHIRIDIO CONTINEANTUR… Lucius Apuleius (ca. 124-170) Florence: Philippi de Giunta, February, 1512 PA6207 M2 1512 “O holy and blessed dame, the perpetuall comfort of humane kind, who by thy bounty and grace nourishest all the world, and hearest a great affection to the adversities of the miserable,...
During Fall Semester, 2015, University of Utah graduate students in SPAN6900-2 Analyzing Texts: Form and Content visited Rare Books. During the third and final session with Rare Books, the students were introduced to late 20th century/early 21st century fine press and artists’ books. The session...
During Fall Semester, 2015, University of Utah graduate students in SPAN6900-2 Analyzing Texts: Form and Content visited Rare Books. During the third and final session with Rare Books, the students were introduced to late 20th century/early 21st century fine press and artists’ books. The session...
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950 First edition PS3503 R167 M3 1950 Ray Bradbury’s second novel is a collection of interconnected stories about the exploration and colonization of Mars. In these stories he addresses racial prejudice, colonialism, the devastation of war,...
Poems of Childhood Eugene Field (1850-1895) New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1904 PS1667 P6 1904 Newspaperman Eugene Field was born in Missouri. His father, an attorney, successfully defended Dred Scott, a fugitive slave. Field’s mother died when he was six. He and his younger brother grew up in Amherst,...
During Fall Semester, 2015, University of Utah graduate students in SPAN6900-2 Analyzing Texts: Form and Content visited Rare Books. During the third and final session with Rare Books, the students were introduced to late 20th century/early 21st century fine press and artists’ books. The session...
During Fall Semester, 2015, University of Utah graduate students in SPAN6900-2 Analyzing Texts: Form and Content visited Rare Books. During the third and final session with Rare Books, the students were introduced to late 20th century/early 21st century fine press and artists’ books. The session...
21 Dec Happy Holidays Posted Monday, December 21, 2015 in Creativity & Innovation Services by rachel Cheers to the New Year! Wishing you a Happy Holiday season from the Creativity and Innovations Services Team! Source: Creativity and Innovation Services Department Blog...
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club… Charles Dickens (1812-1870) London: Chapman & Hall, 1836-37 First edition PR4569 A1 1836 With the publication of his first novel, the Pickwick Papers, twenty-five year old Charles Dickens became famous overnight. It was published in monthly parts and the author supplied the installments as...