Arthur Graham Polyglot Press Collection
Abstract
The Arthur Graham Polyglot Press Collection (dated 1969-2019, undated; 4.16 cubic feet; 5 boxes) comprises hand-printed poetry, quotes, religious passages, illustrations, and personal notes, all in a variety of languages, that document the work of Arthur Graham and his Polyglot Press.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Arthur Graham Polyglot Press Collection
- Date
- 1969-2019, undated (inclusive)
- Extent
- 4.16 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Poetry.
- Printing -- Kentucky.
- Printing presses
- Wood-engraving.
- Kredel, Fritz (1900-1973)
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject into 9 series: Fritz Kredel Illustrations, English, German, Hebrew and Yiddish, French, Latin, Italian, Other Languages, and Boxwooder.
- Preferred Citation
- 2021ms053: [identification of item], Arthur Graham Polyglot Press Collection, 1969-2019, undated, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Arthur Graham was the founder and operator of Polyglot Press in Lexington, Kentucky. He was born in New York and initially planned to be a chemist, earning a degree in chemistry at New York University. After graduating Graham decided that he wanted to sing or teach music so he earned master's and Ed.D degrees from Columbia University in music education and studied singing at the Julliard School of Music. He went on to be a tenor with the Metropolitan Opera, appearing in over 75 performances. Graham taught at the University of Miami at Coral Gables, Florida and Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania before joining the University of Kentucky in 1968 as a professor of Music. Outside of music and music education, Graham was passionate about printing presses and operated a private press out of his home. "Graham began printing in New York and continued in Pennsylvania and Florida before moving to Lexington. Printing as the Polyglot Press, he has brought fine typographic treatment to works in various languages. He has printed in Danish, in English, in French, In German, in Hebrew, in Latin, in Neapolitan, in Spanish, and in Yiddish, and his work demonstrates a sensitive appreciation for linguistic nuance. In addition to the variety of languages in which he prints, Arthur Graham has also assembled an enviable array of type fonts, allowing him to bring further suggestions of meaning and mood to the way in which his words are displayed."
- Source: Burton Milward, "The Private Press Tradition in Lexington, Kentucky", in The Kentucky Review, Volume XI, Number 3, Autumn 1992, pp. 5-27
- Scope and Content
- The Arthur Graham Polyglot Press Collection (dated 1969-2019, undated; 4.16 cubic feet; 5 boxes) comprises hand-printed poetry, quotes, religious passages, illustrations, and personal notes, all in a variety of languages, that document the work of Arthur Graham and his Polyglot Press. The most frequently appearing language is English, though Arthur also printed his works in German, Hebrew, French, and Latin. Arthur often printed works that included woodcut illustrations made by Fritz Kredel, such as Aesop's fables, Tristan and Isolde, quotes from Candide, and various proverbs. The Polyglot Press printed original poems and quotes by Arthur Graham along with works by Arthur Rimbaud, Wilhelm Busch, Paul Verlaine, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Paul Holbrook, Marcus Tullius Cicero, and Dante Alighieri. Also included in the collection are short essays by Arthur Graham that were published The Boxwooder.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Fritz Kredel Illustrations, 2006-2013, undated
Six woodcuts for medieval latin lyrics by Fritz Kredel, 2009
Fritz Kredel illustrations: "The Blonde Corinthian" by Herbert T. Cobey (2 copies), 2009
"Man and Wolf" parable from Berekhiah ha-Nakdan's "Fox Fables" with woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel; printed in Hebrew, with English translation provided on ancillary note, 2008
"Fritz Kredel: Woodcuts from Doctor Faust" (4 copies), 2006
"Fritz Kredel Woodcuts + The Gawain Poet", undated
Voltaire - Candide, "Tres amusantes et legerement titillantes illustrations de Fritz Kredel pour "Histoire de la vieille"", printed in French (2 copies), 2009
"The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, with Fritz Kredel woodcuts (2 copies), 2011
Fritz Kredel - Woodcuts for fables of Berekhiah Ha-Nakdan (2 copies), 2008
"Die Wasserkufe, oder der Einsiedler und die Seneschallin von Aquilegia" by Christoph Martin Wieland, translated by Rudolph Fellner, illustrations by Fritz Kredel (2 copies), 2009
"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year: Artwork from even cards", seven woodcuts by Fritz and Annie Kredel, 2009
"Proverbal Woodcuts", woodcuts by Fritz Kredel inspired by various proverbs, 2011
"Samson", with line drawings by Fritz Kredel (color images), 2011
"Samson" with line drawings by Fritz Kredel, in Hebrew and English (black and white images), 2006
"Four drawings for poems of Heinrich Heine", illustrated by Fritz Kredel, German with English translation, 2009
"Illustrationen zu vier Gedichten von Heine", illustrated by Fritz Kredel (2 copies), 2012
"The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel (2 copies), 2010
"Fritz Kredel - Woodcuts from the Offenbacher Haggadah", 2008
"Selected Drawings from De Bello Gallico", Fritz Kredel illustrations from Eugene I. Burdick's reading translation "The Gallic War of Julius Caesar" (2 copies, one is a dummy copy), 2010
"Aesop's Fables - selected drawings", drawings by Fritz Kredel, 2009
"A Dozen Women - Alone and With Men", selected woodcuts and drawings by Fritz Kredel (2 copies), 2013
"Tristan and Isolde", selected woodcuts by Fritz Kredel, 2008
Woodcuts by Fritz Kredel for "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard", "May Collin and the Knight", "Chevy Chase", "Edward", "Our Goodman", and "Robin Hood and the Monk" (2 copies), 2009
English, 1969-2018, undated
The Polyglot Press Credo (2 copies), 2013-02-05T00:00:00+00:00
"The Pardonder's Tale", prolouge lines 77-78, by Geoffrey Chaucer with a modern translations by E. Fletcher (2 copies), undated
"The Ballad of a Barber" by Aubrey Beardsley, from the third number of The Savoy, with the original illustration and a self-portrait, 2002
Quotations from television and film (2 copies), undated
"Oft Misquoted" print (2 copies), undated
"Poem Because of You" by David Verble, dedicated to "Margaret", undated
"Kansas" by David Verble, undated
"La Chevelure: a Macaronic Tetralimerick" by Arthur Graham (3 copies), 1999
"The Wit and Wisdom of Elliot Vereker; Quotations and Drawing by Jas. Th. [James Thurber]", printed by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2012
"Rimbaud", by Arthur Graham, undated
"The 3 B's -or- Which is Which" by Arthur Graham (2 copies); note to reader included, 2007
"De Senectute: Fragments for Consideration on my Ninetieth Birthday", quotes from four poets, undated
Two poems from "Exact Description of All Ranks on Earth" [1568] by Hans Sachs with the original woodcuts by Jost Amman and translated by Arthur Graham, 2002
Six Chansons de Bilitis translated from the Greek by Pierre Louys, illustrations by Willy Pogany, Englished[sic] by Alvah C. Bessie, undated
Selected poems by Stephen Crane, 2001
"Book Jackets: unclad tomes revealed in lurid rhyme" by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2006
"Ashkenazen" from Zen Judaism by David M. Bader, 2005
"A Dickinsonian Poem" attributed to Emily Dickinson, printed by Faux Facsimile Press; (2 copies, one with cover and poem, the other with cover but no poem), 2003
"Grist Redux: typographic adventures, excerpted quotations, translations, Emily Dickinson, Polyglot limerick" by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2014
"Holy Sonnets of John Donne" with four engravings by Eric Gill (2 copies), 2016
"Beatrice Warde: five quotations in capital fonts" (2 copies, one noted as "dummy"), 2012
"Over 45? on the depletion of male hormone" by Arthur Graham, edited by J. Ramon Jones (2 copies), undated
Saint Joan: scene four, excerpt from George Bernard Shaw's play; caricature by Gregory J. Walters, typography by Arthur Graham (2copies), 2008
Quote from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, illustrated by Fritz Kredel (2 copies), 2011
"On the Healing Arts: attributed to Emily Dickinson", parodistic verses by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2006
"Notice of Annulment" print (2 copies), undated
"Rime Pauvre: a macaronic quatrain in Latin and English" by AG [Arthur Graham] and JRJ [J. Ramon Jones], 2014
"The Horny Scottsman", quote from Samuel Johnson, LL.D., about James Boswell (2 copies), undated
"Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir? Limericks inspired by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester" by A. Graham and J.R. Jones (2 copies), 2014
"Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae" by Ernest Dowson (1891), 2003
"Beauty" from Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham (2 copies), undated
Quote about federal prosecutors from United States v. John Cummins, Lexington Cr.No.91-9, E.D. Ky., undated
Quote about perjury from a taped phone conversation in United States v. John Cummins, Lexington Cr.No.91-9, E.D. Ky., undated
Debbie Long quote about Holly Hill Inn from the Lexington Herald-Leader, 2007-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
"3 Questions", print, undated
"Aesthetics", print; quotes from Baruch Spinoza, Alexander Pope, Susan Sontag, and George Santayana, undated
"Thanatopsis: poems on death by Heine, Rimbaud, Hugo, Milton, and Douglas", printed by Arthur Graham (3 copies); ancillary papers with typed translations of Hugo and Rimbaud poems, 2013
"Chapman's Homer Revisited: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, a poetry contest", print with winning poem and two honorable mention poems (2 copies), 2012
Psalm CXVII, printed in Hebrew, English, Latin, Yiddish, and German; copies are numbered "1/48", "38/48", and "11/48" (3 copies, 1 is an empty cover), 1990
"Alvin Shemesh: the future medical illustrator, scientist and physician satirizes his college roomate's delusion of muscularity in two pencil sketches", 2002
"Three Drawings: Aubrey Beardsley revisited" (2 copies), 2018
"The Dead Poet" by Lord Alfred Douglas, undated
"Sappho", a portrait by Charles A. Jolly and translations of "The Poem of Jealousy" (2 copies), 2012
"Some Doubts in Translating" by Arthur Graham (5 copies), 1973
Line from The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg, undated
"The Graham-Keeley Motto" print, undated
"Sinead" by Jane Egan Graham, undated
"Seattle Slew!" poem, undated
"No new steps!" print of notice from Australian Ballroom Dancing Federation president Barry Fife, undated
Print of award of "Proofreader of the Year" to Raymond F. Betts from Polyglot Press, 2003
Two cards reading "Happy Father's Day" in Latin and English, undated
Print of "A Mother's Day Message for Children" from President George W. Bush in the October 2003 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, undated
"Waste Not Want Not" by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 1978-06-06T00:00:00+00:00
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", abridged, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2002
"Naughty Helen", an excerpt from Wilhelm Busch's Die Fromme Helene, 2003
Print of a Fritz Kredel illustration inspired by a Mark Twain quote about Wagner's music, quote printed inside, undated
"That Woman: Warning! Adult Verse" print, 2018
"The Rubaiyat: a study in translation; Edward Fitzgerald's poetic process is examined through close translations and rhymed idiomatic paraphrases of the Farsi quatrains. Nineteenth-century French and German translations are appended for comparison" by Shahriar Shahriari, 2007
"Pitino", print of Billy Reed's quote on Rick Pitino at UK, undated
Two prints of a play on the quote "Don't do the same work twice", 1989-06-21T00:00:00+00:00
"Old Tuscan Towns: ode to the Castello di Tavolese" (2 copies), 2004
Poem by W.B. Yeats, undated
Print of Henry David Thoreau quote "I left the woods for as a good a reason as I went there" with names Henry David Thoreau, Dennis Carrigan, Bjorn Borg, and Arthur Graham interspersed in the quote in a different font, undated
"Dirge" by Arthur Graham, dedicated to "Gay", 1980
Proverbs 17-6, undated
"A Mighty Fortress", portrait of Mark Twain by Charles Adams Jolly, 2018
"Tedious and Brief: A Thanksgiving Play" by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2004
"Perfection", quotes on perfection from Alan Brignull and Carmen Perreiah, undated
"Dear Mr. Chairman", a tribute to Richard M. Nixon, culled from his letters to the Senate Select Committee and printed for Robert A. Graham on the occasion of his 25th birthday (3 copies), 1992 December 21
"Fan", poem, undated
"Should Old & Quaint [medial S] Be Forgot?" by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2006 August 24
"Diagnosis and Treatment: ode of a Freudian slip", by Emma Eckstein, printed by Arthur Graham, 1999
"Career", conversation between Doonesbury and therapist, 1996
"Alcaic Ode" by Arthur Graham, 1999
"Stephen Crane poems printed in memory of Jim Rimmer and Paul H. Duensing" (2 copies), 2017
"Women Printers: quotation, doggerel, and woodcut" (2 copies), 2006
"3 Sonnets - With Links to Foreign Languages" by Edwin Arlington Robinson, 2015
"Award-Winning Writing - 20th-Century Students: a disrespectful gathering of quotations compiled by Arthur Graham, Ed. D." (2 copies), 2012
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", poetry contest promotion (2 copies), 2012
George Washington "To the Hebrew Congregation, in Newport, Rhode-Island" letter excerpt, 2007
Fragment of "The Life and Times of Wolfram von Eschenbach", by John Wesley Thomas, 2018
"On the Character and Duty of an Academick", by Samuel Johnson, LL.D., undated
"Great Spririt", adapted from a Native-American adage, "So Sioux Me", undated
"ΣAΠΦΩ", Illustration of Sappho by Charles A. Jolly (2 copies), undated
"The Jewish Experience in America, explored through haiku...", undated
"To Feste; in memory of Robert Egan", by Marlene Walker, undated
"Rimes of an Ancient Typographer", 2017
"Double Limerick", undated
"The Bible on Martinis" (3 copies), undated
"Unimpeachable and Irrefutable" excerpt of review from Robert Croan on Arthur Graham in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, undated
"An Exercise in Comparative Translation", a sonnet by Juan Meléndez Valdés, 2000
"Selected Lines from a Browning Poem, with additions by the Duke of Desha", undated
"Sagesse III, vi by Paul Verlaine: A study in poetic translation", printed by The Graham Press, 1969
"La Chevelure", a polyglot limerick, by Arthur Graham, 2005
"Seven Types of Ambiguity: a monograph for typophiles", by William Empson, printed by Arthur Graham, 1980
"How the Prophet Elisha overcame a baldness problem, II Kings 2:22:24" (3 copies), 1992
"A Caveat for Dental Students", quote from King Lear: I, iv by William Shakespeare, undated
"Christmas Greetings from Naughty Santa and His Nubile and Over-Age True Believer" Christmas card, undated
"Seven Shakespearean Sonnets In Seven Faces", 2001
"Three Sonnets by John Milton", 2002
"Jewish Haiku", undated
"Pepys, the Licentious Polygot", undated
"Scenes from Opera", with drawings by Fritz Kredel, 2011
"Wood Road", poem by Gerhard R. Schade, undated
"A Poison Tree" by William Blake, undated
"Un-Title-Less", poem by Arthur Graham, originally titled "Two Hours in Pittsburgh", dedicated "to my wife", proof copy, 1975 April 10
"Classic Cawood", print of quote from Cawood Ledford's commentary on the LSU vs. UK March 1, 1981 basketball game, undated
Print of quote "No recorders, no cameras permitted on this floor, per order of court 10-5-73", undated
"Thoughts for Music Educators" from Feeling and Form by Susanne K. Langer (3 copies), undated
"The Nine Deadly Sins" print (4 copies), undated
Lines from minnesang "Tristan had no choice" by Heinrich von Veldeke, printed in English (2 copies), undated
Print reading "Nobel Prize - Awarded, honoris causa, to the Class of June, 1946 for overweening pride in their connection to the Bronx High School of Science", undated
"Characters from Canterbury Tales - Caxtonian Woodcuts and Excerpts Printed with F.W. Goudy's Medieval Type & Lombardic Initials", 2013
"Miniver Cheevy: Charles Adams Jolly's depiction of the protagonist in E.A. Robinson's poem", 2017
Blank Metropolitan Opera Tour Awards forms (2 copies), undated
"Redundant Handset Type" (3 copies), undated
"Honk if You Love Jussi", undated
Print of quote from "Nick Yamana's Grandfather", undated
"L'Heure Bleue" by Gini Anding La Charite (2004) printed on one side and "Danger in Handiwork" by Arthur Graham (1995) printed on the other side, undated
Broadside of "Ed Poe Can Try Me, Pet - C.B." in Cement Poetry genre, by Arthur Graham, 1980
"Ed Poe Can Try Me, Pet - C.B.: A Cement Poem" by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2007
"Tuska Bronze", poem by Theophile Gautier, undated
"Ten Coasters: Sacred & Profane/Clever & Inane", edited by Joe, Margaret, and Jane, 2018
Promotional flyer for "Ed. D. teaching degree? or Condemnation to second-class academic citizenship?", a colloquium sponsored by the Ed. D. Defense League, Bluegrass Chapter, undated
Print of quote from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream between Francis Flute and Peter Quince dedicated to John Jacob Niles on one side and a poem in Hebrew and English "for Cantor Samuel Greenburg on his birthday December 27, 1984" on the other side, undated
New Years greeting card, 2004
Pittsburg Bibliophiles meeting memorabilia, 2007-05-24T00:00:00+00:00
"Günter Grass: on pronunciation of the German author's name and more", limerick by Arthur Graham, with Sumi ink painting of Grass by Charles Adams Jolly, undated
Poem for Judith Kredel Brown's 80th birthday, written by Jane and Arthur Graham, printed by Gregory F. Walters, undated
"Epilogue - spoken by Prospero" from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, undated
Print of Ecclesiastes 12:12, "Ecclesiastes" written in Hebrew at the bottom, undated
Print of a quote from Dainel Berkeley Updike, undated
"MEWJ", poetry for and about Margaret E.W. Jones by Arthur Graham, edited by Joseph R. Jones, 2014
Ethics in Kentucky - "family values" quote from Rowan County Magistrate Nick Caudill in the October 19, 1994 Lexington Herald-Leader, undated
Birthday card to Jane Egan Graham, 1991-09-23T00:00:00+00:00
Quotes from Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 39 with illustration, 2003
"Con and Pro: quotations on type design" (2 copies), 2007
"Bass Rocks" by Bob Egan, undated
Print of quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson on success, undated
"On Amateur Printing", poem sent to Paul Holbrook, undated
"Homage to Edwin Arlington Robinson", 2001
"I Don't Like This!", quote from Ray Edelman March 28, 1992 in Philadelphia, proof copy, undated
"Aquaintances", book of poetry printed in Middle High German, Neapolitan, Hebrew, and Latin with English translations by Arthur Graham (3 copies), 2017
"Career Verities", select quotes on speaker's honesty about their work, 1996
Correspondence, 1979-2013, undated
Print of a quote about lawyers from Elbert Hubbard with a drawing by Charles Jolly, undated
Cover for "Perseus: a broadside inspired by the retirement of R.F. Betts, scholar", undated
"In Memoriam: Paul G. Forand, 1933-1984", eulogy by Michael H. Impey (2 copies), undated
"Holy Sonnet" by John Donne, printed by Arthur Graham, 1978 March 20
"Carolyn Reading Hammer", dithyramb by Paul E. Holbrook (1999) and portrait by Charles A. Jolly (2019), undated
"American Writers: Faces & Words", sumi brush drawings by Charles A. Jolly, printed by Polyglot Press, 2016
"De Profundis: A Polyglot Psalter", prints in Latin, Italian, German, French, and English, 1984
"Elegant Homes of Lexington Kentucky, 1897", reprint of January 24, 1897 article from The Commercial Tribune of Cincinnati, Ohio with serigraphs by Grace Perreiah and quotations from Walter E. Langsam, printed by Arthur Graham; signatures from Grace, Walter, and Arthur in the back of the print, 1982
Passage from the book of Numbers, undated
"Evening Service of Roshashonah and Kippur", adpated from the first English translations for synagogue use, printed in New-York, 1761 (2 copies), 1995 June 14
"United States v. Billy Louis Collins - excerpts from the transcript", 1994
"Reuben Bright", by Edwin Arlington Robinson with drawing by Charles Jolly, undated
Psalm 113, undated
"Seven Types of Ambiguity", by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2003
"Encores", reprints of photoengravings by Charles Adams Jolly, 2017
"The Provenance of Broida's Law", lines from William Shakespeare's King Lear, Act II, Scene iv, undated
Prints of Archie Bunker's misquote of 1 Corinthians 13:13 from "All in the Family", printed in French and English, undated
"Kubla Khan", by Coleridge, undated
Excerpt of Unetanneh Tokef, printed in English and Hebrew, undated
"Pilcrow & Pilcrow & Pilcrow", a double-didactic limerick by Arthur Graham, 1975
"A Woman of Valor: Proverbs, 31", printed in English and Hebrew, undated
"A Printer's Progress", poem by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 1986 June 5
"A Psalm of David, XXIII", four serigraphs, by Grace Perreiah, 2000
"Sonnet", by John Jacob Niles, undated
"Dean Smith", print of quotes about Dean Smith from Mike Krzyewski, John Wooden, Michael Jordan, and Rick Pitino; handwritten on back "proof 1/4", undated
Print of quote about hand-crafted art from Carmen Perreiah, undated
Portrait of Mark Twain by "D. Burg" and portrait of Emily Dickinson by "J. Egan", undated
Three prints of quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr., 1991
Drawing of four portraits of President Barack Obama as Mount Rushmore, undated
"LINA", poem, undated
Shomer Yisrael prayer, printed in English with Hebrew words interspersed, undated
"Tristran et Yseut - two woodcuts and twelfth-century old French texts", woodcuts by Fritz Kredel, 2008
Quote from "Seneca" by Chaucer on one side, excerpt from January 24, 1897 issue of Cincinnati, Ohio's The Commercial Tribune on Lexington homes on the other side, undated
Quote from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza, undated
Excerpt from Mesillath Yesharim by Rabbi Moses Chaim Luzzatto, proof copy, undated
"Festchrift for Thomas B. Stroup", handwritten on cover "worst proof", 1973
Promotional poster - "Tuska: Twenty-Five Year Retrospective" with artwork by John Tuska, 1989
"Liber Primus XI" by Q. Horati Flacci (in black) and "Lyrick to Mirth" by Robert Herrick (in red), interwoven (2 copies), undated
"Old Gipsy Curse" print, undated
Cover sheet for "Kentucky" by I.J. Schwartz centennial anniversary re-printing, 2018
Cover sheet for "Three poems by John Wesley Thomas", 1999
"Evolution", undated
"A Nighttime Stroll", undated
"Homonyms" by Arthur Graham, 2007 October 24
"Computer Haiku", undated
"Le Tombeau De Fre 462 - ou - quel bateau est sans defaut?", printed in English, 1971
"Vincenzo Russo's Last Song" by Arthur Graham, 1973
"Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard", print, undated
Untitled poem by Stephen Crane (3 copies), 1992
"23. A Psalm of David", proof copy, undated
Print of a quote from Jake Warner about a 9x13 Kelsey press, undated
Two poems, originally rolled together: "The Poor in Church" by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Jonathan Greene; "XIIth Century Church" by Eleanor Keats, 1973, undated
German, 1971-1977, 1994-2019, undated
Untitled poem circa 1190 by Heinrich von Veldeke (German with English translation), undated
"Faunsflotenlied" by Otto Julius Bierbaum (German with English translation), undated
"Heinrich Heine -Schoepfungsleider; Songs of Creation", German text with translation by Arthur Graham, 2011
"Hebraeische Balladen", poems and artwork by Else Lasker-Schueler, translations edited by John Roger Paas, printed by Polyglot Press (German with English translation, 2 copies), 2010
"Marie von Nazareth", poem and drawing by Else Lasker-Schueler (German with English translation), 2010
"Gesammelte Weisheit uebersetzt auf englische Knuettelverse", by Rudolph Fellner and Arthur Graham (German with English translation), 2003
"Seven Translations of Heinrich Heine's Still ist die Nacht", not on front and back cover reads "second", 2015
"Spaete Gedichte" by Guenter Grass, translated and annotated by Richard E. Schade, German with English translations, 2015
"Stages: line drawings by Frank Marino for a poem", German with English translation (2 copies), 2016
"Tristian und Isolde - Two Woodcuts", medieval German texts by Gottfied von Strassburg and Heinrich von Freiberg, woodcuts by Fritz Kredel, undated
"Transatlantische Elgeie" by Günter Grass, printed in German, English translation on ancilliary paper, circa 2019
"Mythologie - Jupiter" by Heinrich Heine, printed by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2006
"Tears of the Fatherland" (1636) by Andreas Gryphius, printed in German with English translation by George C. Schoolfield, 2012
"Wandrers Nachtlied 1", by Goethe, undated
"Am Akentishc", "Toast", and "Annonce", printed in German with English translations, undated
"An Die Musik", text by Franz von Schober, printed in German with reading translation in English, dedicated to Naomi Broida, circa 1994
"Urworte. Orphisch" by Johan Wolfgang Jon Goethe, printed in German with English translations at end, 1971
"Poetic Aphorisms from the Sinn-Gedichte of Friedrich von Logau", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, introduction and translation by Richard E. Schade, printed in German with English translation (2 copies), 2005
"Mein Volk - Else Lasker-Schueler, with sketches of the poet by Miron Sima" (2 copies), 2005 September
"Leck mir den Arsch recht schoen" lyrics by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, printed in German, undated
"Mein Volk", by Else Lasker-Schüler, printed in German with English translation by Arthur Graham, undated
Excerpt from "That Awful German Language", by Mark Twain, with portrait of Twain, printed in German with English translation, undated
Excerpt for "Die Romantische Schule" by Heinrich Heine on the history of literature, 1977 November 12
Print of the Bormann decree, from Martin Bormann, banning the use of the Schwabacher typeface (2 copies), undated
Hebrew and Yiddish, 1982-1985, 2004-2010, undated
"Le Barde de L'Avon: Extrait Jules Cesar; traduit en 'Francais' par I.J. Schwartz", Julius Caesar printed in Yiddish with ancilliary text printed in French, 2010
"Kentucky" by I.J Schwartz, printed in Hebrew with English translation and transliteration to Latin alphabet, 2004
Micah 6:8, printed in Hebrew with an English translation, undated
"Pseudo-Hebrew", showing the similarities between three different typefaces and printed Hebrew, 2008
"Alter Knocker's Entreaty", Psalm 71:9, Hebrew with English translation, undated
"Advice Concerning Work in Progress", printed in Hebrew with English translation (3 copies), undated
"Morning Prayer", printed in Hebrew with an English translation, undated
Proverbs 5:18-19, printed in Hebrew and English, undated
Print of a "Yiddish saying transliterated palindromically", printed in Yiddish with English translation, undated
Three prints of Ethics of the Fathers, chapter three, verse one; printed in Hebrew and English, 2007-2008, undated
Print in Hebrew, undated
Shomer Yisrael prayer, printed in Hebrew with English translation (2 copies), undated
Rosh Hashanah blessing, printed in Hebrew with English translation (2 copies), undated
Print of quote "When the burden of exile wearies, you, children, gain strength from these letters - consult them!", printed in Hebrew with English translation, undated
Print of Psalm 137: 1, printed in Hebrew, German, and English, undated
Elegy for Rabbi Moses della Rocca by Leone Modena, printed in Hebrew and Italian with a Latin translation, undated
Prints of "Alef-Sof" (1 copy) and "Homo Novus" (2 copies) by Jeremiah Hescheles, with correspondence about translations and permissions, 1982 June, 1985 February-June
French, 2008-2014, undated
Farcical dispensation print for O. Leonard Press, printed in French (2 copies); typed English translation by Rupert T. Pickens, 2008 December 2
"Le Sonnet du trou du cul" by Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, printed in French with English translation, undated
Certificate for "Les Palmes Alcooliques - Dégustatrice, 1ère Classe" (2 copies), undated
"Rime Riche", verse from Victor Hugo printed in original French with translations by Rupert T. Pickens and Arthur Graham (2 copies), undated
French poetry quiz and answer key, undated
"Trois Poemes de la Renaissance", imprimes avec les caracteres de civilite D'Hermann Zapf ["Three poems of the Remaissance", printed with Zapf Civilite type], 2013
Excerpts from Joachim du Bellay's "Les Antiquités de Rome - III", "Les Amours de Faustine - ad lectorem", and "Les Regrets - LXVIII", printed in French with English translations, 2014
Poem by Chrestien de Troyes, printed in French with English translation, sent to Jim Birchfield, undated
"Talleyrand on Cognac", printed in French and English, undated
Latin, 2005-2016, undated
"The Dance of Death", six of the Hans Holbein woodcuts - enlarged and printed with zape civilite and Goudy old style typefaces (Latin, 3 copies), 2012
Print of an angel holding a scroll that reads "Gloria in excelsis Deo Et in terra pax hominibus", undated
"Epigrammata", selection of epigrams by Marcus Valerius Martialis, Latin with English translation, 2016
Print, "Hic Lacet Scammacca Sicilianus Eex Foenicia Obiit 212 B.C.", (Translated from Latin: Here lies Scammacca Sicilian, King of Fenecia Died 212 BC), undated
"Five Proverbs of King Solomon", from the Vulgate and King James bibles, printed in Latin with English translations (2 copies), 2005
Ephesians 5:23, printed in Latin with translations in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English (2 copies), undated
Excerpt from "De Officiis" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, printed in original Latin with English translation, proof copy, undated
Prints of medical advice from Salerno, printed in Latin, French, and English (6 prints), undated
Italian, 1994-2000, undated
"Finalmenti!", by Marco Scalabrino, printed in Italian, undated
Print of quote from Mario Abbate "La Calma e la Virtu Dei Forti", undated
"Marzo", by Salvatore Di Giacomo, printed in Italian with English translation, undated
"A Guido Cavalcante" by Dante, Englished[sic] by P.B. Shelly, 2000
"Testamento", last will and testament for Buoso Donati from "Gianni Schicchi", undated
Print of excerpt from "Purgatorio" by Dante, copy 2 of 4, printed in Italian, 1994 June 10
Other Languages, 2001-2007, undated
Quote from Jose Ortega y Gasset on administrators, printed in Spanish with accompanying poem in English, undated
"Las Armas de la Inquisicion Espanola", quote from Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch on the Spanish Inquisition, printed in Spanish, undated
"For a Woman Going to Miraflores Who Fell From Her Mule" by Juan del Valle y Cavides, two prints in Spanish with English translations, one with an illustration, 2001, undated
"The Monk and His Cat" (original title "Pangur"), one print in original Gaeilge, two prints of W.H. Auden's English translation with drawing by Charles A. Jolly, 2007
"The Little Wine Bottle of a Drunkard", a shaped poem in Ladino by A. Ben Guiat; printed in Ladino with Spanish, English, and Hebrew translations, 2007
Boxwooder, 2003-2010
The Boxwooder, no. 413; "Fine Printing: The Other Printing Hobby" by Arthur Graham (2 copies), 2003 December 1
The Boxwooder, no. 428; "Capitals for Text" by Arthur Graham, 2005 March 1
The Boxwooder, no. 458; "Dabblings in Doggerel" by Arthur Graham, 2007 September 1
The Boxwooder, no. 467; "My Taste in Typefaces: A Personal Adventure in the Purchase of Type" by Arthur Graham, 2008 June 1
The Boxwooder, no. 474; "Some Favorite Lines of Poetry in My Retirement" by Arthur Graham, 2009 January 1
The Boxwooder, no. 477; "Polygot Press Poetry" by Arthur Graham, 2009 April 1
The Boxwooder, no. 488; "Kelsey Hand Presses, part 2" with essays by David Warner and Arthur Graham, 2010 March 1
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Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Descriptive Summary
- Collection Overview
- Preferred Citation
- Restrictions on Access and Use
- Contents of the Collection
- Fritz Kredel Illustrations, 2006-2013, undated
- English, 1969-2018, undated
- German, 1971-1977, 1994-2019, undated
- Hebrew and Yiddish, 1982-1985, 2004-2010, undated
- French, 2008-2014, undated
- Latin, 2005-2016, undated
- Italian, 1994-2000, undated
- Other Languages, 2001-2007, undated
- Boxwooder, 2003-2010
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