The Rare Books Department welcomes U back to school! Do you have your textbooks ready? How about your reading primers? Primers were a type of textbook that taught students how to read. Initially, they contained "primary" or fundamental religious materials. Reference to primers appears in English...

23 August, 2021 /

A gift from Ed Firmage (University of Utah Professor Emeritus) to the Rare Books Department raises intriguing questions. In the front of this well preserved copy of the Life of Brigham Young; or, Utah and Her Founders, published in 1876, is a calligraphic inscription wherein...

26 July, 2016 /

“There is a power in combined enlightened sentiment and sympathy before which every form of injustice and cruelty must finally go down.” – Harriett Beecher Stowe, 1874 LES MORMONS (SAINTS DES DERNIERS-JOURS) ET LEUR… Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse (1825-1882) Lausanne: Imprimerie Larpin et Coendoz, 1854 First edition BX8635 S74 1854 T....

11 April, 2016 /