At last the Father of the Gods sent Hermes to fetch Persephone back to earth, on condition that she had eaten nothing while in the kingdom of Pluto. Alas that very day she had tasted six seeds of a pomegranate...
"The institutes for new apparatuses" While Trodding Clifton Meador Boone, NC: Clifton Meador, Appalachian State University, 2016 N7433.4 M43 W45 2016 From the artist’s statement: “During a residency in the Truukimuseuum (a printing history museum in Tartu, Estonia…I became interested in the narratives embedded in Soviet-period photo books. Many of...
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” ― Tennessee Williams The Outsider Jon Edgar Webb New Orleans, Lousiana : Loujon Press, 1961-1970 xPS1 O9 (vol 1-5) Jon and Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb were bohemian fugitives living in Cleveland, Ohio with a penchant for...
"[Benjamin Franklin] holds deserved preeminence in the long line of distinguished American printers. The leading features of his useful and brilliant career as a statesman and philosopher are so well known that it is unnecessary to dwell upon them here. But it is worthy of...
"Both men and women are travellers in the great journey of life: as a species, their origin, their final destinies, their moral duties, are the same. Women, equally with men, to prepare themselves for the as yet unknown paths which they may be called to...
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"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...
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...
