This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. James Wasserman, author, editor, publisher and occultist, gives us Art and Symbols of the Occult. A disciple of Aleister Crawley’s Ordo Templi Orientis, he has written numerous books on the subject as well as republishing and updating several Read More
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Creepy-crawlies and their tell-tale traces
Unsurprisingly, some of the centuries-old books now in Houghton’s library stacks have fared better over time than others. There are many factors that impact the breakdown of codex materials, including (but not limited to) natural elements like water, heat, and either too much, or too little, humidity. All of these deteriorate the components of the Read More
Three times as nice
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. We are lucky to have found three first editions of Traité du chanvre in different bindings as we continue to unpack and catalog items from Santo Domingo boxes. From left to right the images reflect the covers of these copies Read More
“Do you wear pants!”: T. S. Eliot’s first magazine
T. S. Eliot’s first magazine was published in an extremely limited edition, with an erratic mixture of upper- and lower-case penciling. Advertised as “A Little Papre” (it is about three inches wide and four inches tall), Fireside first appeared on January 28, 1899, when Eliot was ten. It ran in fourteen installments over the next Read More
New on OASIS in October
Finding aids for three newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month: Processed by Ashley M. Nary and Benjamin Hand: Vanity Fair Caricatures, 1871-1911 (MS Thr 1041) Processed by Bonnie B. Salt: Charles Henry Taylor Collection of Privateering Papers, 1718-1928 (MS Am 1087) Mayhew Family Papers, 1731-1790 (MS Am 977)