Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1902-03-23 | Page 23 | First Books Made

MADE Government Has a Rare Old Collection Collection tion at Washington Library The TIte Library of Congress has Sn in tile the northwest gallery a collection of rare old books and aDd engravings delight tile the soul of every who looks there thereon thereon on Some Boise relate to the early history ot of America Amen and some were done by the monks menu sf ef old aid eft keg before the diSCovery of this e continent There Is a whole cue case of oC Chinese books rich la In covers of gold and embroidered silk and there ill Is a magnificent manu mann manuscript script ot of the thirteenth century a Bible written on Nl vellum ellum with IN large Ill and nearlY t twelve Vf hundred miniatures AU All or of tM the colors are ox ex fresh trilb and beautiful with a that excels anything done ha modern th times es There Iber Sa fa a series or of old books arranged In chronological order beginning with the year lir l only about fourteen years later than tHe date assigned for tor the first book of any magnitude There Is I a book for every year down to the sixteenth century centuri when hen books became I less rare and the sped specimens correspondingly more numer numerous numerous ous The be first of the series Is I II a large larse volume of the constitution of Pope Clefs Clem Clemment merit ment V It la Is rubricated and as aa was li usual tal In the th early books book the title page pa it tine end A quaint old book Is by entitled Tem Tela gad And published by peter Drach in ID tsong its Illustrations Is a wood woodcut woodcut cut rf f Noahs lit ark with all of the corn com compartments labeled so 80 that the habitations of birds animals and men are clearly Indicated A beautifully illuminated book The Life ot of Christ was waa done don by a learned monk di Vita A nun num number her ber of books bound In richly wrought leather with coronets and aDd armorial bear bearIngs bearings Ings stamped thereon are tram the 11 11 of famous lemen and princes One bears the Imperial arms of the first Napoleon and was presented by br hm to tI Josephine And with the old older r es esthere there thre is es also a fine collection c o 0 shanks original engravings which afford a wonderfully clear Idea of English lUG life In inthe th the early part or of the last century i