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A Sampling of Materials of Interest
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The Two Winchester Bibles by
Walter Oakeshott
A scholarly study of 12th-century illumination. Clarendon
Press, 1981.
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Codex Tro-Cortesianus
The Maya wrote their beliefs, history, and astronomy in special
books that are now known as codices. We have facsimiles edition
of some.
Location: Sp.Coll. F1435 /C653 |
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Gottingen Model
Book
Written around 1450, the book provides
instructions for how to illumniate the Guttenberg Bible. Our
copy is a facsimile and includes a translation.
Location: Stacks ND2980 / G6 |
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Caxton & the Polycronicon
of 1482
The book, beautifully designed and letterpress printed in 1938
by the Grabhorn Press, contains an an actual original page from
the Caxton's Polycronicon.
Located in Special Collections. |
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Astronomicum Caesareum
by Peter Apian
A Renaissance astronomy manual from 1540 containing rotating
paper wheels which demonstrate planetary motion and movements
of the stars. Ours is the facsimile edition published in 1967.
Located in Special Collections. |
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Arrighi's Operina by John Benson and
Arte Subtilissima
Facsimiles of illustrated writing manuals typical of the mid-1500s.
Location: Stacks Z43 / A3 / L8333 and Stacks Z43 / A3 / I3 |
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The Pencil of Nature (facsimile of 1844 book)
Location: Sp. Coll. TR 144 T2 1969 |
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L'Apocalypse Figuree by Jean
Duvet
Illustrations to Jean de Tournes printing of the 22 chapters
of the Book of Revelation from 1561. Ours is a facsimile edition
by Eugrammia Press, published in 1962.
Located in Special Collections. |
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The Type Specimen of J.F. Rosart
Rosart was one of the two main typefounders in Brussels in
the late 18th century. This book is a facsimile of the 1768
edition
Location: Stacks Z 250 / R78 |
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Harper’s Bazaar (1870)
Located in Special Collection |
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Caricature and Other Comic Art
Location: Sp. Coll. NC 1325 P3 1877 |
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La
Fontaine's Fables
Translated into English verse by Walter Thornbury. Profusely
illustrated by Gustave Dore. Printed around 1885.
Location: Sp. Coll. PQ 1811 / E3 / T4 |
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The Dictionary of Needlework (1882)
Location: Sp. Coll. TT 750 C372 1882 |
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Figure Drawing for Children (1893)
Location: Sp. Coll. NC 765 R57 |
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The Growth of Industrial Arts (1886)
Location: Special Collections |
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Harper's Bazaar
The Library owns several samples of women's magazines, which
were especially popular during the 19th Century.
Located in Special Collections |
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The Kelmscott Chaucer,
1896
Willam Morris produced what is considered one of the great books
in the history of printing. Ours is the facsimile edition published
in 1958.
Location: StacksZ 232 / M87 / C52 |
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Phil May’s Gutter Snipes Cartoons (1896)
Location: Sp. Coll. NC 1479 M38 1896 |
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Moko/ Maori Tattooing (1969; facsimile of 1896 book)
Location: Sp. Coll. GN 667 N947 |
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Beardsley (1872-98)
Described as the most original genius of British art in the
1890s, the Library owns many books with reproductions of Aubrey
Beardsley"s book designs.
Location: Oversize Sp. Coll. NC 1115 / B395 and Stacks NC978.5
/ M34 / B42 |
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Cosmopolitan and Scribbner’s Magazines (individual issues 1897/1898)
Location: Special Collections |
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The Rossettis (1900)
Location: Sp. Coll. ND 497 R863 |
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Two Centuries of Costume in America (1903)
Location: Sp. Coll. GT 605 E8 |
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The Gibson Book: A Collection of teh Published Works of Charles Dana Gibson, V.2
Location: Oversize Sp. Coll. NC 139 G42 G4 1907 |
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Die Traumenden Knaben (1907); a 1968 facsimile
Location: Special Collections |
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Fashion in Paris (1908)
Location: Sp. Coll. GT 887 U8 1898 |
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Alphabets Old and New (c. 1910)
Location: Sp. Coll. NK 3600 D22 |
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Raemaekers’ Cartoons (1917)
Location: Sp. Coll. NC 1429 R33 R4 1916 |
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Boyhood Photos of J.-h. Lartigue (facsimile)
Location: Sp. Coll. TR 140 L375 L37 1966 |
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America in the War (1918)
Location: Sp. Coll. NC 1429 R33 A43 |
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The Delineator (Fashion Magazine, 1917-1927)
Location: Special Collections |
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War Posters (1920)
Location: Sp. Coll. NC 1810 H3 1920 |
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Red Cartoons from the Daily Worker (2 copies; 1926 & 1928)
Location: Sp. Coll. NC 1763 C6 D3 |
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Art-Gout-Beaute
Luxurious fashion magazine published from 1920 to 1933. Unpaginated
(29pp.), illustrated with 16 hand-colored pochoir designs (incl.
cover, shown above, cropped to emphasise cover image) and 5
full page advertisements as well as color endpapers reproducing
a design available on crepe de chine fabric. Text in French.
Location: Special Collections |
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Commercial Art Magazine (loose issues 1930s)
Location: Special Collections |
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Specimens of Type in use at the Kynoch Press
Location: Sp.Coll. Z 250 K96 1934 |
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Fashions Art Volume 1/ No. 1 (1934)
Location: Special Collections TT 500 F27 1934 |
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Printing Types: Their History (Volume 1; 1937)
Location: Sp.Coll. Z250 A2U6 |
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Advertising Arts
"An important historical document in defining the evolution
from work-a-day commercial art to sophisticated graphic design."
Location: Special Collections (14 issues from the early 1930s) |
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Modern Publicity (3 volumes from the '30s and '40s)
Annual of Art and Industry, a london-based association. Show examples of posters, illustrations, packaging, letterheads, etc. from the period.
Location: Sp.Coll. NC 997 / A1 / M6 |
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Alphabet and Image Volumes 1-4; 5-8 (1946-1948)
Location: Special Collections |
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Tschichold 1949
Location: Sp. Coll Z 43 S36 1949 |
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Printing and Graphic Arts (2 volumes 1953-1954)
Location: Special Collections |
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Portfolio Magazine
Art director: Alexey Brodovitch
The Library owns 3 issues from the early 1950s.
Located in Special Collections. |
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Collagious Material (issues 1-6; 1965)
Located in Special Collections |
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Great Ideas of Western Man
Portfolio of booklets about famous thinkers created by well known designers for the Container Corportion of America. |
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Best of Flair
Extravagantly produced magazine created by socialite Fleur Cowles.
Location: Spec. Coll. AC5 / B45157 |
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Print: America's Graphic
Design Magazine
Library has a complete run from 1942 to the present.
Location: Magazine Stacks (alphabetically arranged) |
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TM
(Trade Marks)
Location: Spec. Coll. T 223 V2 T5 1968 |
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On Seven Shakespearean Comedies (1969)
Location: Spec. Coll. PR 2983 K47 1969 |
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Peter Max Paints America (1973)
Location: Spec. Coll.NC 1850 M38 A25 |
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Please
request Special Collections materials from the Library Director
or Circulation Manager. |
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