Robert Boyle and the Early Foundations of Modern Chemistry
by SLU’s Rare Books is known for its strength in Jesuitica and theology, but it has also collected many notable works across a wide variety of …
Household Words: A Glance into Charles Dickens’s Journalism
Today’s blog post features SLU undergraduate student Christian Rickert, an English and Catholic Studies major, who began working with the Rare Books Division this past …
The Early Editions of John Milton’s Paradise Lost
This past June, Saint Louis University hosted scholars from around the world for the 2022 Conference on John Milton. A special session, the Geraghty Symposium, …
Eric Gill’s Four Gospels — The Adoration of the Magi
by The English sculptor, type designer, and printmaker Eric Gill (1882–1940) worked with the Golden Cockerel Press to produce this Gospel Book, which is considered to …
H.G Wells’ The Outline of History
by The Outline of History transformed H.G Wells’ career from popular novelist to bestselling educational author. Chronicling the history of humanity from the formation of the …
London Almanack
Almanacs were an exceedingly popular genre from the early seventeenth until the late nineteenth century. Published annually, they typically included a calendar with important holidays, …
Peterson’s Magazine
Technological and social advances beginning in the eighteenth century led to a boom in periodical publishing in the late eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries. …
William Morris’s Love Is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond
Designer, craftsman, poet, and political activist, William Morris (1834-1896), was an influential force within the Arts and Crafts movement, a reaction to what was seen …
METAscripta Goes Live!
The Vatican Film Library announces the launch of its new crowd-sourced metadata website for pre-modern manuscripts of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana — METAscripta. Descriptive information …
Blaeu’s Atlas Maior
Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior was one of the grandest and most expensive publishing projects of the seventeenth century. It was a product of the unprecedented …
