Links to Rare Books on the Internet
The links below are for resources on the Internet that are similar to the ones from our own collection that are used in Clark's course "Introduction to Graphic Design".
Clay tablets
Book of palm leaves
Papyrus
One red and gold scroll
The Guide to Good Works (Arabic)
French Book of Hours
The calendar from a book of hours
The illuminations from a book of hours
Book of Kells
Chinese woodblock
Biblia Pauperum
Gutenberg Bible
Recueil de Chirurgie
Nuremberg Chronicle
Nicolas Jenson's printing
Aldus Manutius' printing
Aldus' Plutarch
Aldus' version of Dante's Devine Comedy
Albrecht Durer
Paradise Lost illustrated by John Medina
Examples of copper and steel engraving
Birds Of America by John James Audubon
An Island Garden illustraded by Childe Hassem
The House Beautiful by Frank Lloyd Wright
Works by William Morris
Golden Cockerel Press
Ode on Intimations of Immortality illustrated by Norah Neilson Gray
LaBretagne by Charles LeGoffic
Creatures illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff
The Farmer's Year by Clare Leighton
Barry Moser illistrated books
A Humument by Tom Phillips
Fore-edge paintings
Miniature books
Examples of various types of paper
Examples of various types of bookbinding
Modern recreations of old bindings
Girdle book
Fine bindings
Coptic binding
A page with examples of many kinds of materials
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Clark University archivist Mott Linn, pictured above in the Rare Books Room of Goddard Library, recently published two related articles in Rittenhouse, a journal dedicated to increasing and diffusing knowledge about scientific instruments. The articles featured descriptions and photographs of Clark's Biology, Psychology, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry laboratories presented during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair as examples of exemplary American educational facilities.
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