image from “The Poems of William Shakespeare, According to the Text of the Original Copies, Including the Lyrics, Songs, and Snatches Found in His Dramas,” Essex House Press, 1899 PR2841 A2 E55, Rare Books You are invited to join the University of Utah’s Friends of the...
“I think seeing first editions especially, and seeing them in the way that they would have come out is really powerful because then you kind of get to experience it in the way similar to someone would during that time.” — Lyuba Basin, Curator, Rare...
“When the mind has been made up to encounter disasters and reverses, and has fixed a point as the zero of its scale, however for the time it may be depressed by doubts and difficulties, it will mount up again with the first gleam of...
“Wisdom! Let us attend!” VO SLAVU STYIA… Orthodox Eastern Church Kiev: v Kievopecherskoi lavre, 170? The Monastery of the Caves was founded in 1015 just outside of Kiev. In 1615, as part of a prestige-building effort, the Abbot raised money to buy a printing press. The oldest known...
“Golden words are painted [here] on purple pages, The Thunderer’s shining kingdoms of the starry heavens, Revealed in rose-red blood, disclose the joys of heaven, And the eloquence of God glittering with fitting brilliance Promises the splendid rewards of martyrdom to be gained.” GODESCALC EVANGELISTARY Darmstadt: Primus, 2011 Facsimile. The Godescalc Evangelistary...
“AMERICANS! he had no child – BUT YOU – and HE WAS ALL YOUR OWN.” AN ORATION, UPON THE DEATH OF GENERAL… Gouverneur Morris (1752-1799) New-York, Printed by John Furman, opposite the City Hall, 1800 E312.63 M86 1800 Gouverneur Morris represented Pennsylvania at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He wrote...
“The smooth black stream that makes thy whiteness fair, — Sweet fluttering sheet…” – from “The Love-Letter” POEMS Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) London: F. S. Ellis, 1870 First edition, first issue binding PS5240 A1 1870 University of Utah copy presentation copy inscribed to John Skelton and dated April of 1870. Skelton was a...
“At night may I roam When the owl is hooting At dawn may I roam When the crow is calling Then may I roam.” – Teton Sioux SOUNDS OF THE NIGHT: THE AMERICAN INDIAN AND THE OWL Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013) South Norwalk, CT: Winter 1994-1995 Earth tones contrast with night colors of deep...
“Farewel, my friends! farewel, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those: The bursting tears my heart declare- Farewel, the bonie banks of Ayr!” — Robert Burns, 1786 The staff of the Rare Books Department extends its heartfelt condolences to the family of Frederick S. Buchanan (1931-2016). Professor...
“I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right, then, I’ll GO to hell.’” THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN… Mark Twain (1835-1910) London: Chatto &...