#title page tuesday
Happy Title Page Tuesday: Alumna Autograph Edition!
(Cool, K. (2007). Ghost Stories of Tampa Bay. Venice, FL: Historic Venice Press. Alumnae BF 1472 .F6 C6 2007)
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Happy Title Page Tuesday: Walter Crane Edition!
(Crane, W. (1972). Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New. London, UK: George Bell and Sons. Z1023 .C89 1972)
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Happy Title Page Tuesday!
(Trollope, F. M. (1840). The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy. London, UK: H. Colburn. Rare Book PR 5699 .T3 L53)
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Anyone else remember reading this in school?
Happy Title Page Tuesday!
(Stevenson, R. L. (1927). Treasure Island. London, UK: Ernest Benn. Rare Book PR5486 1927)
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Happy Title Page Tuesday!
(Pougin, A. (1885). Dictionnaire historique et pittoresque du théâtre et des arts qui s’y rattachent. Paris, France: Firmin-Didot et cie. PN 2035 .P6)
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Happy Title Page Tuesday!
(Misrach, R. (2007). On the Beach. New York, NY: Aperture. Oversize TR 647 .M526 2007)
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Happy Title Page Tuesday!
(Pitman, G. E., & Litten, K. (2014). This Day in June. Washington, D.C.: Magination Press. Kellogg PZ 8.3 .P5586836 Th 2014)
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Happy Title Page Tuesday!
(James, A. (2000). The Handmade Book. Pownal, VT: Storey Books. Z 266 .J36 2000)
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Protolume chimico e cheggiante di condupplicati paraphrasi (1682) by Giovanni Francesco Aggravi.
This book is part of our Neville Collection which was purchased from Roy G. Neville. This is a first edition Venetian copy, 12mo. 6 leaves, and woodcut printer’s ornament on the title page. It is bound in contemporary vellum with old ink lettering on spine.
Nothing seems to be known of the author, Giovanni Francesco Aggravi (if you know information that might help, let us know! He’s most likely from the 17th century). The first half of this book covers chemical apparatus, operations, and process, with the second half focusing on an alphabetical list of preparations of chemicals, mainly for pharmaceutical uses.
Title Page Tuesday
This is actually a really cool title page because it is one of ten books that is found inside Collectanea chymica(1684).
Happy Title page Tuesday! The title pages of many early modern books included small woodcut illustrations, and this one, from Vosciscus Fortunatus Plemp’s Ophthalmographia,is no exception. If you look very closely, you’ll notice that this illustration features a musical score. The words read “Laudate dominum omnes gentes,” which is the opening line of Psalm 117 and translates to “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles.” The Psalms are often attributed to King David, and the figure kneeling before the music is dressed in the ermine robes associated with Renaissance kings and holds a harp, the instrument most closely associated with the Biblical David. In this instance, the image doesn’t relate to the intellectual content of the book; it was most likely associated with the printer, Hieronymous Nempaeus.
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Happy Title Page Tuesday! This fantastic engraved title comes from the Institutionum Medicinae Libri Vby Daniel Sennert. Like many of its contemporaries, it includes a number of symbolic images - Adam and Eve at the very top, the écorché figure to the left of the central square - but we want to draw your attention to the the three small illustrations just below Adam and Eve. Medicine is often seen as consisting of the three branches of medicine, surgery, and pharmacy, and lo and behold, you can see them here! On the left, a surgeon performs a cranial operation on his patient. In the middle, a physician examines a flask of urine to diagnose illness. And on the right, an apothecary prepares medical prescriptions. Although these practices were meant to be professionally distinct, the lines between them were often blurred - for example, physicians let blood, while apothecaries might prescribe medicine instead of just mixing it.
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Happy Title Page Tuesday! This lovely woodcut title page comes from a 1551 edition of the Roman physician Galen’s commentaries on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. The imagery doesn’t seem to be directly related to the subject of the text, but it is still highly decorative. We’re particularly fond of the satyr playing his pan pipes on the bottom.
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