Love Letters: A Gallery of Type selections from the rare book collections LE PIU INSIGNI PITTURE PARMENSI… Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) Parma: Dalla Tipografia Bodoniana, 1809 ND621 P3 B63 1809 algebraic Bodoni, complete letters, lean as greyhounds, subject to the white rectangle of Geometry; THOM SMITHI ANGLI DE REPVBLICA ANGLORVM LIBRI TRES… Thomas Smith (1513-1577) Lvg. Batavorvm: ex officina Elzeviriana, CIC ICC XXX...

08 January, 2021 /

Last semester, Rare Books loaned six of its medieval manuscript facsimiles to the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University in collaboration with an art history course taught by Professor Alexa Sand. The upper-level course, “Special Topics Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Rare Books...

23 January, 2018 /

“Of a truth I confess they [the tales] are not mine, and if I said otherwise I should lie, but nevertheless I have faithfully set them down according to the manner in which they are told…” Le XIII Piacevoli Notti… Giovanni Francesco Straparola (ca. 1480- ca. 1557) In Venetia:...

29 September, 2017 /

“It was all as grand as grand could be.”   Feathers, Paws, Fins and Claws Presentation and Reception Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker Weller Book Works Trolley Square Thursday, May 26, 6:30PM This event is free and open to the public   A wide variety of creatures walk, fly, leap, slither, and swim through...

23 May, 2016 /

THEATRO DEL MUNDO Y DE EL TIEMP… Giovanni Paolo Gallucci Impresso en Granada en las casas de autor, por su industria, y a su costa por Sebastian Munoz, impressor de libros ano 1607 First published in Venice in 1588 as Theatrum mundi, et temporis, this book...

14 March, 2016 /