by Kevin Kerr (2008)
"Photographer Eadweard Muybridge's life was filled with the events of Victorian melodrama: adultery, jealousy, betrayal, murder, and an abandoned child. Tried for the murder of his wife's lover, he was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide. However, these events, which predate his subsequent obsession with stopping time and freezing motion, become the ghosts that haunt Muybridge in the fictional world of Governor General's Award winning dramatist Kevin Kerr's new play, Studies in Motion."--BOOK JACKET.
Robert W. and Harriett Swedberg
An illustrated guide to American furniture from the 1900's through the 1950's. Includes a patent number chart from 1836 through 1959, and a compilation of prices from furniture catalogues covering the first ten years of the twentieth century.
exhibition and catalogue by Philip Oldfield
A catalogue of an exhibition of rare books held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, May 23 - August 29, 2014, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library owns most of the books in this exhibition, others are borrowed from private collectors.
David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie
"Aristophanes wrote most of his comedic masterpieces during the Peloponnesian wars, parodying the tumultuous politics and society of that time with trademark innuendoes and bawdy stagings and dialogue. [v. 1:] In these plays, Aristophanes brings every rhetorical stratagem into play to treat the reader to stories of one man's attempt to create a "war-free zone', the rescue of the imprisoned Peace on the back of a giant dung beetle, a satire of Euripides' sympathies for women, and the hustling and healing of a blind and destitute Wealth in order to redistribute the world's riches. [v. 3:] These plays contain, in turn, the sharpest political satire to be found in Aristophanes, a famous caricature of Socrates and the sophists, and the escapist fantasy of a city in the clouds."--Book jackets.
Natalie Hyde
"In the 1800s, the Underground Railroad was a system of secret routes and safe places to hide for Black slaves trying to escape to freedom. This powerful book examines historical evidence, such as slave auction posters, engravings, photographs, and first-person interviews, that either supported slavery or called for its abolition."--