by Staff | Jul 30, 2020 | Collection Highlight, News, Rare Books
Jean Toomer was a masterful historiographer and writer of black history and culture. His seminal publication, Cane, embodied his devotion to narrating the black experience and to applying a critical eye to past history of oppression and prejudice in order to preserve...
by Staff | Jul 29, 2020 | News, Rare Books
Moses Alshekh, also known as Moshe Alshich, born in the early 1500’s in the city of Adrianople, gained immense influence and respect as a rabbi and scholar. In his service to the Jewish faith, R. Alshekh mastered the teachings of the Torah and delivered sermons...
by Staff | Jul 21, 2020 | Collections, New Collections, Rare Books
Albrecht Dürer exemplified a mastery and uniqueness in his contribution to Italian art in the 15th and 16th centuries. Though Dürer excelled in varied mediums and forms of art, wood cutting emerged as his most deft and accomplished medium. Dürer’s proficiency in...
by Staff | Jul 21, 2020 | Collections, News, Rare Books
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, burgeoning revolutionaries in book production, including William Morris, Sir Emery Walker, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, and C. H. St. John Hornby, perceived a degradation and lack of painstaking care and integrity in...
by Staff | Jul 14, 2020 | Collections, New Collections, Rare Books
The social structure of Victorian England represented a chasm deep and wide separating the public and private sphere, one that women were forced to straddle uncomfortably and fought to bridge and to bind seamlessly. The private sphere was considered the realm of...
