- A' Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti
- Eleanor Garvey
- This facsimile edition features Betti's elaborate title-page identifying the figures to follow, and twenty-four leaves of plates, each with a different letter of the alphabet, all reproduced at original size.
- Paperback 2005
- Artistry of the Everyday
- Lisa Bernasek
- Photographs by Hillel S. Burger
- Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life presents the Peabody Museum's collection of arts from the Berber-speaking regions of North Africa. The book gives an overview of Berber history and culture, focusing on the rich aesthetic traditions of Amazigh (Berber) craftsmen and women. The book also tells the stories of the collectors--both world-traveling Bostonians and Harvard-trained anthropologists--who brought these objects to Cambridge in the early twentieth century.
- Paperback 2008
- Artscience
- David Edwards
- This book is an attempt to show how innovation in the "post-Google generation" is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line so firmly drawn between the arts and the sciences. Edwards describes how contemporary creators achieve breakthroughs in the arts and sciences by developing their ideas in an intermediate zone of human creativity where neither art nor science is easily defined.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Bible in the Twelfth Century
- Laura Light
- Among the Houghton's medieval manuscripts was an exhibition of twelfth century Biblical manuscripts. Light's catalogue catches the culture of the medieval book at its height, not only in Bibles but in breviaries, lectionaries, commentaries, and works of the Doctors and Fathers of the Church.
- Paperback 2005
- Centuries of Books and Manuscripts
- Anne Anninger
- Roger Stoddard
- In 1992 the Houghton Library celebrated fifty years of preeminence with an exhibition devoted to its riches. This work catalogs an astonishing range of books, manuscripts, and curiosities, including a miniature stage set made for a 1975 Mabou Mines production of Samuel Beckett's play The Lost Ones; manuscript scores and first editions of works by Fauré, Schumann, and Beethoven; pathbreaking prints of Piranesi and Delacroix; drawings and manuscript items from Edward Lear, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Ben Shahn; primary examples of medieval manuscripts and woodblock printed texts, and early letterpress. Taken together, these items illustrate how a still-young institution becomes a repository of centuries of culture and memory.
- Hardcover 2005
- Clocks and Watches
- Hugh Tait
- Recording the passing of time has challenged mankind for thousands of years, but it was not until the Middle Ages that a fundamental advance was made when the first mechanical clocks harnessed the power of the falling weight and the unwinding spring. Hugh Tait traces the history of clocks and watches from the earliest medieval examples to modern times. From the grand long-case clocks to the most exquisite of watches, this book shows how invention and mechanical ingenuity have been matched with craftsmanship and artistry for more than five hundred years.
- Paperback
- Collecting the Weaver's Art
- Laurie D. Webster
- Foreword by Tony Berlant
- This is the first publication on a remarkable collection of sixty-six outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr. Claflin bequeathed to the museum not only these beautiful textiles, but also his detailed accounts of their collection histories--a rare record of the individuals who had owned or traded these weavings before they found a home in his private museum.
- Paperback 2005
- Collector's Choice
- Owen Gingerich
- This is the catalogue of an exhibition, held in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the Class of 1933, featuring items given by Harrison Horblit '33, one of Houghton Library's most distinguished donors. The exhibition includes materials covering Manuscritps and the Cradle of Printing, Early Arithmetics, Early English Printing, the Scientific Renaissance, Printing and Bibliography, Interesting Bindings, and Early Photography.
- Paperback 2005
- Danish Literature
- Nancy S. Reinhardt
- A catalog of an exhibition at Houghton Library in 1986 of Danish items, ranging from 1514 to 1942, from Houghton's collection, as well as items on loan from David P. Wheatland, Janet Jurist, and the Boston Public Library.
- Paperback 2005
- Decorated Book Papers
- Rosamond B. Loring
- Edited by Hope Mayo
- Decorated Book Papers, first published in 1942, remains one of the standard works on its subject. Loring, a collector and maker of decorated papers, explores the extensive history and use of decorated papers in the book arts. Appendices are devoted to the art of marbling, the preparation of paste papers, and a listing of some early makers of decorated paper.
- Hardcover 2008
- First Impressions
- Hugh Amory
- A catalogue of the exhibition at the Hougton Library and at the Harvard Law School Library in 1989 celebrating the 350th anniversary of the first printing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each section of the catalogue focuses on a single book: The Bay Psalms Book, the Eliot Indian Bible, and The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts.
- Paperback 2005
- First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library
- David R. Whitesell
- The late James E. Walsh's pioneering catalogue of the Harvard collection of fifteenth-century printed books was published in five volumes. The First Supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes. The apparatus follows the Walsh model, and the book is designed to be used both on its own and in conjunction with the five original volumes.
- Hardcover 2006
- Five Centuries of Books and Manuscripts in Modern Greek
- Evro Layton
- This work explores the emergence of modern Greek language, thought, and sensibility reflected in Harvard's collection of Greek books and manuscripts, ranging from fifteenth century liturgical manuals to Renaissance translations into modern Greek of Homer and other classical authors to the works and papers of twentieth-century Greek literary figures. With copious illustrations of Greek writing, design, and typography, Evro Layton's catalogue is a visual and intellectual treat for philhellenes.
- Paperback 2005
- Fregi e Majuscole Incise e Fuse da Giambattista Bodoni
- Afterword by Eleanor Garvey
- A facsimile of Giambattista Bodoni's first type specimen, "Fregi e Majuscole" of 1771, two copies of which were given to the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Houghton Library by William Bentinck-Smith, Class of 1937.
- Paperback 2005
- George Parker Winship as Librarian, Typophile, and Teacher
- Edited by Roger Stoddard
- As librarian and curator at Brown and later at Harvard, George Parker Winship championed the primacy of the role of rare books in American higher education. As a connoisseur and printer, he played an active role in promulgating enthusiasm for fine printing among collectors and readers in the early twentieth century. This slim, elegant volume collects three talks given on April 17, 1997, at a symposium held in Winship's memory, and includes an essay by grandson Michael Winship, himself one of America's preeminent bibliographers.
- Paperback 2005
- Henry Fielding
- Hugh Amory
- Introduction by Charles Donahue
- Foreword by Charles Donahue
- An edition of fragments of Henry Fielding's unpublished treatise on eighteenth-century law, which were displayed at an exhibition at Houghton Library in 1987, including fragments from Harvard, Yale, and the Hyde Collection, now also at Harvard.
- Paperback 2005
- A Houghton Library Chronicle, 1942-1992
- Hugh Amory
- Elizabeth A. Falsey
- Nancy Finlay
- This 1992 volume, compiled by senior Houghton librarians, blends documentary with oral history to look back on the library's origins, the growth of its collections, and the activities of the staff who made it a home for precious books and original scholarship.
- Hardcover 1992
- Illustration
- J. Hillis Miller
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback
- Indian Art in Detail
- A. L. Dallapiccola
- The rich and diverse cultures of India are represented in exquisite detail in this book, which begins with a simple question: what is Indian art? Each thematically organized chapter delves into such topics as religion and myth, epics, festivals, courtly and village life, and the natural world. The gorgeous close-ups of paintings, textiles, and sculptures in metal, ivory, and wood illuminate the aesthetics and workmanship, as well as recurrent motifs that are distinctly Indian.
- Hardcover 2007
- Jan van Krimpen
- Introduction and notes by John Dreyfus
- Jan van Krimpen
- A facsimile of a letter from calligrapher, typographer, theoretician, and author, Jan van Krimpen, to Paul Hofer, Curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library, on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches.
- Hardcover 2005
- Japanese Art in Detail
- John Reeve
- Beginning by asking, "What is Japanese art?" this book supplies an answer so broad in its reach, so rich in detail, and so extensively illustrated that it gives a reader not just a true picture but also a fine understanding of Japanese art. Arranged thematically, the book includes chapters on nature and pleasure, landscape and beauty, all framed by the themes of serenity and turmoil, the two poles of Japanese culture ancient and modern.
- Hardcover 2006
- Manga from the Floating World
- Adam L. Kern
- Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced with three annotated translations of works by author-artist Santô Kyôden (1761-1816), Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the mid-Edo period. Based on extensive research using primary sources in their original Edo editions and illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the more experienced student of Japanese cultural history.
- Hardcover 2007
- Marbled and Paste Papers
- Facsimile Edition
- Rosamond B. Loring
- Introduction by Sidney E. Berger
- Edited by Hope Mayo
- Loring, author of Decorated Book Papers, was also a skilled maker of marbled and paste papers. Her recipe book has been preserved in the Rosamond B. Loring Collection of Decorated Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University. This facsimile edition is accompanied by an essay by Sidney E. Berger commenting on the recipes and analyzing Loring's materials and techniques.
- Paperback 2008
- Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained
- Roger Stoddard
- In 1984, Roger Stoddard curated "an exhibition devoted to those mysterious traces left in books by printers, binders, booksellers, librarians, and collectors." The resulting catalogue, Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained, is cherished by curators, collectors, and scholars for the insight it offers into the making and the use of books. With sumptuous illustrations and prose at once pithy and polemical, Stoddard describes the glosses, cancels, catchwords, and signature marks that shed light on both printer's craft and author's art.
- Paperback 2005
- The Merrymount Press
- Martin Hutner
- Daniel Berkely Updike (1860-1941) founded the Merrymount Press in 1893, which quickly came to represent the flowering of the Arts and Crafts movement in American book arts. This catalogue demonstrates the breadth and beauty of the Press's work, and the standard it set for commercial and fine printing.
- Paperback 2005
- The Philip Hofer Collection in the Houghton Library
- Eleanor Garvey
- In this exhibition catalogue, Philip Hofer's successor, Eleanor Garvey, explores the rich legacy he bequeathed to Harvard: extraordinary manuscripts, writing manuals, illustrated books, and examples of fine and unusual printing. The objects of Hofer's fancy constitute a teaching collection and a scholarly resource of the highest kind.
- Paperback 2005
- The Philip Hofer Collection in the Houghton Library
- Edited by William H. Bond
- This book records the proceedings of a symposium held in conjunction with the 1988 exhibition of the Philip Hofer bequest to the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library. Contributors include William H. Bond, Charles Ryskamp, Arthur Vershbow, William Bentinck-Smith, and Lucien Goldschmidt. Their recollections of one of Harvard College Library's most generous donors provide a fascinating portrait of one of America's great bibliophiles.
- Paperback 2005
- The Practice of Letters
- David P. Becker
- After the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, the art of writing in manuscript took on fresh meaning. Printed manuals for the teaching of handwriting quickly appeared, marketed to a growing literate readership anxious to express humanistic values through fine writing. Hofer, Founding Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in Houghton Library, was long fascinated with the printed works of writing masters, and amassed one of the great collections of early penmanship textbooks before his death in 1984. Becker's catalogue tells the story of this collection while amply illustrating the diversity and expressive power of the arts of the pen.
- Paperback 2005
- Pushkin and His Friends
- John Malmstad
- In 1987 the Houghton Library observed the 150th anniversary of the death of Aleksandr Pushkin with an exhibition of materials drawn from the extraordinary Russian literature collection assembled by Bayard Kilgour. From this vast trove, curator John E. Malmstad chose books, letters, and manuscripts that illuminated Pushkin's life, career, and the world of influences and rivals that shaped Russia's most important literary voice.
- Paperback 2005
- Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
- Anne Anninger
- A catalogue of the exhibition at Houghton Library in 1985 of Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, with a apreface by Anne Anninger. The catalogue describes forty exceptional items included in teh exhibition, while the Bibliography offers information on 210 additional Iberian items in houghton collections.
- Paperback 2005
- Studio Works 12
- Edited by Paula Meijerink
- Edited by Laura Miller
- Edited by Martin Zogran
- The aim of Studio Works is to capture the essential character of the design studio experience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Studio Works 12 features outstanding GSD student work from school years 2005–2006 and 2006–2007, along with material documenting exhibitions, research seminars, and thesis projects.
- Paperback 2008
- Tenniel’s Alice
- Eleanor Garvey
- William H. Bond
- Tenniel's Alice explores the work of Sir John Tenniel, the artist who furnished illustrations for the first editions of Louis Carroll's best-known works. Although Tenniel and Carroll parted ways after publication of Through the Looking-Glass, the artist's designs fixed in the public's mind images of Carroll's characters that thrive down to the present day.
- Paperback 2005
- Toulouse-Lautrec
- Peter A. Wick
- This catalogue documents a collection of 24 black and white reproductions of book covers and brochures illustrated by Toulouse-Latrec housed in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library. This is a sequel to Philip Hofer's A Bestiary by Toulouse-Lautrec.
- Paperback 2005
- The Work of Stephen Harvard
- David P. Becker
- Calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and type designer, Harvard's art and craftsmanship were rooted equally in the history of the book and the natural world. At his untimely death in 1988, he left a body of work that explored his dream of an ideal alphabet, 'a perfect, proportionate set of images that shine with a pythagorean light,' a dream that Harvard found as compelling and impossible 'as the search for perpetual motion.' Becker's lovingly edited and sumptuously illustrated catalog bears out Harvard's conviction that typography, which is at once art and craft, must 'strive to satisfy the intelligence and not the intelligentsia.'
- Paperback 2005
- The Yellow Book
- Margaret D. Stetz
- Mark Samuels Lasner
- A commemorative exhibition of the one-hundredth anniversary of The Yellow Book, the most important and notorious British magazine in the 1890's, the first to include market high Culture to mass audiences in England and America through modern advertising strategies. It includes a 40-page essay, illustrations, and a cheklist of the exhibition held at Houghton Library in 1994.
- Paperback 2005