Robert Boyle and the Early Foundations of Modern Chemistry
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
The McGuffey Eclectic Readers are some of the most famous textbooks in the history of American education. From 1836 to 1920 half of U.S. school-aged …