Category Archives: Private Press Collection
Happy 4th of July from the Peter Pauper Press
Our good friend Jim Dast just brought us two volumes to add to our very large Peter Pauper Press Collection. Both were printed by the Peter Pauper Press for the […]
Mercury Observed
Our colleague Jim Lattis (of UW-Madison’s Space Place) has alerted the campus to a rare transit of Mercury, and to a special opening of Washburn Observatory on Monday, May 9, […]
More of Triangles & Squares: From the Black Mesa Press
Though not included in our current exhibit “Shapes in Books: Triangles, Squares, Circles,” The limits by Anita Barrows, as published by Black Mesa Press in 1982, qualifies both for the […]
On Display at Kohler Art Library
We urge you to visit the Kohler Art Library on campus to view the exhibit “Collected Specimens: Gaylord Schanilec and Midnight Paper Sales,” curated by Lyn Korenic of the Art […]
Thirteen for the Thirteenth
We honor Friday the 13th with thirteen works from Special Collections, replete with examples of horror, mystery, spirits, and luck (bad or otherwise). The links below bring up the full […]
Yeats’ “Green Helmet”
The current exhibit in Special Collections, entitled “Green Green — It’s Green They Say,” has heightened our awareness of both references to the color green and use of color in printing, fine and […]
Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday
On this, Shakespeare’s birthday, we celebrate as well the depth of the Peter Pauper Press Collection in the Department of Special Collections, the generous gift of James and Nancy Dast. […]
Highlighting Private Presses from Wisconsin
To accompany the multi-venue exhibit “Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper,” a small exhibit in the lobby of Memorial Library recently offered a small sampler of output from some […]
Text Support
Congratulations to Tracy Honn, director of the Silver Buckle Press, and Lyn Korenic, director of Kohler Art Library, on their three-venue exhibit, “Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper.” The […]
Holiday cookery from the Peter Pauper Press
One of the mainstays of the Peter Pauper Press was the slim cookbook, attractively designed, and usually running to 60-some pages. From the extensive Special Collections holdings of the Peter […]