Collected by Henry Wendt, Class of 1955, and his wife, Holly, the thirty items have been traveling around the country for the past three years as an exhibition, "Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps, 1472-1700". Firestone Library's Leonard L. Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts hosted the show in early 2010.
Illustrators began using Moore's words to mold a visual image of Santa Claus almost as soon as the poem was first printed in upstate New York's Troy Sentinel in 1823.
So, turn the page and read the stories that I wrote as a teenager, mostly as they were first printed, although the grown-up me has tinkered just a little with a few fine details – the odd tweak here, a pinch there, and a little note at the bottom where needed and all because the younger me wasn't as clever back then as he turned out to be.
Fast-forward to early 17th century Europe and you'll find an emergence of new media as a result of the first printing press -- which produced the first modern-day newspapers.
Wendt's collection also includes Abraham Ortelius's historical map "Tabula Peuteringeriana," more commonly known as the "Peutinger Table". First printed in 1598 and based on a thirteenth-century manuscript scroll now housed in the national library of Austria, the map presents the cursus publicus, the network of roads originally created for couriers of the Roman emperors.
Seen on the page in draft form, or as first printed (rather than as in the final "Collected Poems"), they startle one into a renewed sense of their magnificence.
Walt Whitman's essay "The Bible as Poetry" was first printed in a literary weekly called The Critic on February 3 , 1883
The first printing sold, as did the next, and after an excerpt in Harper's Weekly, Bantam decided to publish "Ecotopia".
This explains some of the more obvious problems with the first printing, such as the disappearance of many of Stravinsky's works and the severe attenuation of the Wagner bibliography.
The series comprises 80 works displayed here in the order in which they were originally printed, bound and sold as a set; the size of the first print edition was 240 copies.
