- Manga from the Floating World
- Adam L. Kern
- Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced with three annotated translations of works by author-artist Santô Kyôden (1761-1816), Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the mid-Edo period. Based on extensive research using primary sources in their original Edo editions and illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the more experienced student of Japanese cultural history.
- Hardcover 2007
- Toulouse-Lautrec
- Peter A. Wick
- This catalogue documents a collection of 24 black and white reproductions of book covers and brochures illustrated by Toulouse-Latrec housed in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library. This is a sequel to Philip Hofer's A Bestiary by Toulouse-Lautrec.
- Paperback 2005
- The Work of Stephen Harvard
- David P. Becker
- Calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and type designer, Harvard's art and craftsmanship were rooted equally in the history of the book and the natural world. At his untimely death in 1988, he left a body of work that explored his dream of an ideal alphabet, 'a perfect, proportionate set of images that shine with a pythagorean light,' a dream that Harvard found as compelling and impossible 'as the search for perpetual motion.' Becker's lovingly edited and sumptuously illustrated catalog bears out Harvard's conviction that typography, which is at once art and craft, must 'strive to satisfy the intelligence and not the intelligentsia.'
- Paperback 2005
- The Yellow Book
- Margaret D. Stetz
- Mark Samuels Lasner
- A commemorative exhibition of the one-hundredth anniversary of The Yellow Book, the most important and notorious British magazine in the 1890's, the first to include market high Culture to mass audiences in England and America through modern advertising strategies. It includes a 40-page essay, illustrations, and a cheklist of the exhibition held at Houghton Library in 1994.
- Paperback 2005