1260799200Magill Quaker Collection2009-12-14T09:00:002009-12-14T16:30:00

December 14, 9:00AM - 4:30PM

Magill Quaker Collection

Rare Books from the Haverford Collection and their Most Modern Renditions

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Haverford's rare book collection is exceptional. The books are used for class instruction in Special Collections and by students and faculty for their research. Their rarity and beauty are assets that enhance enjoyment of the texts and exemplifies the best values of a liberal arts education.

A broad appreciation of literature today includes graphic books, comic books to some, which have recently acquired respectability. The literary experience of a condensed account presented through intense illustration is in striking contrast to that of the more traditional text-based rare book.

Experience and consider these differences for yourself. Each day during exam week a rare book and its graphic counterpart will be on display in Special Collections. Take a study break and be intrigued and challenged.

Monday, Dec 14, 2009 Dante's Inferno

Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia, [Foligno [Italy] : Johan Neumeister, 1472]

Panter, Gary, Jimbo's inferno : a ridiculous mis-recounting of Dante Alighieri's immortal inferno in which Jimbo, led by Valise, in pursuit of the Soulpinx, enters Focky Bocky, vast gloomrock mallscape, Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2006.

Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 Genesis

The Holy Bible: conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: newly translated out of the originall tongues: & with the former translations diligently compared and reuised, by His Maiesties speciall comandement: appointed to be read in churches, Imprinted at London : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Anno Dom. 1611.

The book of Genesis, illustrated by R. Crumb, New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 Arabian Nights

A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments : Supplemental nights to The book of the thousand nights and a night, Printed by the Burton Club for private subscribers only.

1001 Arabian nights : the adventures of Sinbad, Fort Washington, Pa. : Zenescope Entertainment Inc, 2009

Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 American Environment

Carson, Rachel, Silent spring, Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1962

Crumb, R., "A Short History of America," in American earth : environmental writings since Thoreau, New York : Literary Classics of the United States, 2008