Digital Humanities has a history that dates back to the 1940’s and yet, as a term, still isn’t well understood today. Is “Digital Humanities” a discipline? A set of computational methods? Does it refer to new digital tools for capturing and delivering humanities content? Scholars...
“Enter Two Angels in white, with scarlet wings; aso, Four Ladies in gowns of red and green; also an Angel, bearing in his hands a surcoat of white, with a red cross.” SIR GALAHAD, A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY William Morris (1834-1896) New Rochelle, NY: The Elston Press, 1902 Originally published in 1859, this...
Although I have no beauty, colour & perfume Am I not after all the grass of His garden?” — Saadi COLOURS OF PERSIA: PERCEPTIONS, ACCOUNTS… Susan Allix (b. 1943) London, 2007 N7433.4 A57 C65 2007 From the artist: “The text is arranged around the headings of five cities – Tehran, Mashad, Yazd,...
Statement for the new year printed on gold and copper board in a Jacob’s Ladder structure. Housed inside printed folder, as issued. Rare Books copy is from the library of Gabriel Rummonds. ...
“God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.” OPTICKS OR, A TREATISE OF THE...
HE KAINE DIATHEKE, NOVUM TESTAMENTUM Wigorniae, Massachusettensi: excudebat Isaias Thomas, Jun, 1800 Editio Prima Americana This is the first American printing of the Greek New Testament, considered a milestone in American printing history. Isaiah Thomas’ printing shop was dubbed “the sedition factory,” during the American Revolution. Thomas moved his...
“In every country whatever, he who violates a woman is a monster.” The Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser Nathaniel Willis, publisher Boston, MA: Powars and Willis, 1776 v. 30: no. 1852 (1798: Dec. 17-20) AN2 A2 I49 Miscellany —————– For The Chronicle To the virtuous Females in the United States “In every country whatever, he...
“The simplest color relationship…still requires understanding of the color characteristics…that is, hue, value, intensity and temperature, etc.” –James Trissel COLOR FOR THE LETTERPRESS James Trissel Colorado Springs: The Press at Colorado College, 1987 NE1850 T75 1987 Twenty unnumbered, unbound folded leaves issued in plastic and wooden cases. Edition of seventy-five copies,...
“It’s warm there, you cook yourself something, drink wine and look out of the window at your friend eternity.” – Vladimir Holan, Snow Title: Snow Author: Vladimir Holan Printed: Canticle Press, with permission from Penguin Books Ltd., 1971 Edition of 100 copies Translation: Jarmila and Ian Milner, 1971 Call Number: Z232.5 C3 H65 Title:...
“The sense of comfort is the outcome of balance, while marked unbalance immediately urges a corrective. That this approximate balance is desirable may be shown by reference to our behavior, as to temperatures, quality of smoothness and roughness, degrees of light and dark, proportion of...