"Faster than fairies, faster than witches" From a Railway Carriage R. L. Stevenson Dunedin: Frayed Frisket Press, 2005 PR5489 A3 2005 Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, "From A Railway Carriage" was first published in 1885 in A Child's Garden of Verse. England, not Utah, 1885 not 1869, but we like the way...

10 May, 2019 /

"Some of the great images of world art began as prints, perhaps using only a block of wood and a carving tool." -- Nancy Berkoff, "Art of Print At Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach" Rare Books contributed images from five of its books...

03 May, 2019 /

"But surely the book is now everything. It has become in our time what the cathedral with its frescoes and stained glass used to be, what the palaces and museums, where people went to look and learn, used to be. The book has become the...

01 May, 2019 /

And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge— That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should...

29 April, 2019 /

In 2014, the J. Willard Marriott Library joined the world in celebration of the 500 year anniversary of the publication of Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica. On Wednesday, April 17, under the direction of Randy Silverman, head of the Preservation Department, the library hosted several...

23 April, 2019 /

Liber Scivias Hildegard of Bingen Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2013 ND3385 H55 S279 2013 “The Earth is at the same time mother, She is the mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the...

22 April, 2019 /