"Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, new-born world, yet withal so fine and so beautiful it might well fire the dullest observer to desperate enthusiasm." — John Muir,...
"The world is everything, and that is the case." Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) New York; London: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1922 BC135 W5 1992 Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born on April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria. He was raised Catholic, despite his mostly Jewish ancestry....
"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wildness yet...
Fiber /// Liber: The Relationship of Textiles and Text A Rare Books Exhibition Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah March 31 through June 23, 2023 This exhibition is free and open to the public. There is a clear etymological root between the words text...
“There remains nothing more, but to shew that there are some necessary Qualifications to be acquir’d, some good Improvements to be made by Ingenious Gentlemen in the Company of our Sex. Of this number are Complacence, Gallantry, Good Humour, Invention, and an Art…” An Essay in...
Registration for this event is currently full, but please look forward to future events with the Rare Books department. There is a word that describes a person who loves to read, admire and collect books. That word is bibliophile, and bibliophiles have existed since antiquity...
Silence, then, becomes the companion of lovers...
"At a time when the proliferation of cheap newspapers and magazines was designed to strike the lowest common denominator of popular taste, the Tobacco Plant did its substantial bit to maintain a lively interest in literary topics among ordinary middle-class readers. Seldom, before or since,...
"Even as a ghost my spirit will want to roam the fields of summer." — The Old Man Mad about Art Hokusai Manga Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Nagoya: Eirakuya Toshiro,1814-1878 NE1325 K3 H64 vol.14 To the modern Western world there is, perhaps, one image that stands out above the rest as being emblematic of...
"Fitzgerald christened it the Jazz Age, but John Held, Jr. set its style and manners. His angular and scantily clad flapper was accepted by scandalized elders as the prototype for modern youth, the symbol of our moral revolution… So sedulously did we ape his caricatures...
