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A MIRROR OF THE WORLD, THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS.
Bircher, Martin
An Exhibition from the Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny, Switzerland, in cooperation with the Grolier Club of New York. Preface by T. Peter Kraus.
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Martin Bodmer was an honorary member of the Grolier Club from 1964 until his death in 1971. Over the years, he assembled one of the world's greatest libraries and set up a foundation to create a permanent institutional home for his collection. With more than 160,000 items including a Gutenberg Bible and drawings by Michelangelo and Leonardo, every item helped to illustrate the development of World Literature.
A Mirror of the World is a checklist which accompanied the exhibition devoted to Martin Bodmer. The introduction by Martin Bircher includes a brief biography of Bodmer and descriptions of the Gottfried Keller Prize, the literary journal Corona, and the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana. The exhibition is divided into categories including The Bible, Literature, History, Science, Music, and Travel. Various items from Bodmer's collection were chosen to represent these categories. Including illustrations, this catalogue further provides summaries of the German Catalogue and descriptions of epic poems, novels, fiction, classical drama, poetry, philosophy, natural sciences medicine, and geography. It concludes with ten English and American poems from poets including Walt Whitman, Jane Austen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and James Joyce.
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
by Bertin, Charles.
Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the the artist, the binder and the printer, this being one of twenty of the deluxe edition. The prize winning play translated into English by William Jay Smith. Preface by Norman Fiering. Designed, bound and signed by Deborah M. Evetts in quarter leather with Thai silk sides. Portfolio contains six wood engravings printed and signed by John De Pol, and prospectus. Text illustrated with the engravings by John Depol and six engravings from works in the John Carter Brown Library. This copy comes from the library of Deborah Evetts, the binder, and contains a pen and ink drawing of the design used on the front cover, a sample stamped in green leather of this design, and various photographs of the covers.
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