Aug 28, 2023 License to Print in the Name of the King

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"To the King, the French Constitution, and the laws of the realm...

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Jan 31, 2023 Journal of the Week — Cope’s Smoke Room Booklets

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"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,...

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Jan 23, 2023 Book of the Week — Hokusai Manga

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"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...

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Dec 05, 2022 The Hunt for the Old Rock Wall

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A frequent task here in the Rare Book office at the Marriott Library is cataloging and archiving new books that have been donated or acquired. It is common for me to see all the new books before they get incorporated into the book "vault" and...

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Oct 31, 2022 Book of the Week — The Case for Spirit Photography

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“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Case for Spirit Photography Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) New York, NY: George H. Doran, 1923 First American Edition BF1381 D68 While many readers may recognize the name ‘Arthur Conan Doyle’ as the...

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Jul 24, 2022 175 Years Ago Today — Journey of the Utah Pioneers

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"Streets and sidewalks were moving masses of humanity — wide awake to the significance of pioneer week...

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Jul 11, 2022 Rare Books Goes On Vacation!

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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...

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Mar 14, 2022 Book of the Week — Tailleurs Lenitis

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"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." — Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel Tailleurs Lenitis Paris: Tailleurs Lenitis, 1939 TT555 T35 1939 Prior to the 1830s, the word “tweed”...

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Oct 19, 2021 Book of the Week — The Horse in Motion

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“If one wanted to find an absolute beginning point, a creation story, for California’s two greatest transformations of the world, these experiments with horse and camera would be it." — Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows (2003) "Arrangement of the cameras for taking the illustration of the paces" The...

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Oct 04, 2021 Magazine of the Week — Punch, or The London Charivari

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“This Guffawgraph is intended to form a refuge for destitute wit — an asylum for the thousands of orphan jokes — the millions of perishing puns, which are now wandering about without so much as a shelf to rest upon!” — Punch, Volume 1 (1841) Punch, or the London...

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