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The Flyleaf, 1989 TiiiiiiiiiiiiiiAiiiinJiiiuiiiiiiiiuminji 3 1272 00694 0074 RICE UNIVERSITY FONDREN LIBRARY Founded under the charter of the university dated May 18, 1891, the library was estab- lished in 1913. Its present facility was dedicated November 4, 1949, and rededicated in 1969 after a substantial addition, both made possible by gifts of Ella F. Fondren, her children, and the Fondren Foundation and Trust as a tribute to Walter William Fondren. The library recorded its half -millionth volume in 1965; its one millionth volume was celebrated April 22, 1979. THE FRIENDS OF FONDREN LIBRARY The Friends of Fondren Library was founded in 1950 as an association of library supporters interested m increasing and making better known the resources of Fondren Library at Rice University. The Friends, through members' contributions and sponsorship of a memorial and honor gift program, secure gifts and bequests and provide funds for the purchase of rare books, manuscripts, and other materials that could not otherwise be acquired by the library. THE FLYLEAF Founded October 1950 and published quarterly by the Friends of Fondren Library, Rice University, RO. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251, as a record of Fondren Library's and Friends' activities, and of the generosity of the library's supporters. BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1989-90 OFFICERS Mr. Edgar O. Lovett II, President Mrs. Frank B. Davis, Vice-President, Membership Mr. David S. Elder, Vice-President, Programs Mr. J. Richard Luna, Treasurer Mrs. Gus Schill, Jr., Secretary » Mr. David D. Itz, lmrr\ediate Past President Dr. Samuel M. Carrington, Jr., University Librarian (ex-officio) Dr. Edward F. Hayes, Vice-President /or Graduate Studies, Research, and Informatiori Systems Dr. Neal F. Lane, Proi^ost (ex-officio) Dr. Mark A. Kulstad, Chairman of the University Committee on the Library (ex-officio) Mrs. Elizabeth D. Charles, Executive Director (ex-officio) MEMBERS AT LARGE Mrs. J.D. Allshouse Mr. Charles D. Maynard, Jr. Mr. Ronald W. Blake Mrs. William H. Merriman Mrs. Jack S. Blanton, Jr. Dr. Harold E. Rorschach, Jr. Mrs. John R. Hurd Mrs. George Rupp Dr. Harold M. Hyman Mr. Thomas D. Smith Mr. Richard W. Lilliott III Mr. Henry L. Walters, Jr. Mr. John H. Matthews Dr. lohn E. Wolf I A LETTER TO THE FRIENDS CONTENTS Dear Friends, 1 A Letter to the Friends Again this year, the Friends of Fondren Library is sponsoring a diverse program oi events for your enrichment and enjoyment (see calen- On Our Marks dar on page 8). Except for the Fondren Saturday Cory Masiak Night dinner/fund-raiser, all of these events are free and open to the public and do not require reservations. Mark your calendars now so that 1989-90 Calendar of Events you won't miss any of our 1989-90 activities. To kick off the new academic year, Dr. Elizabeth Long, an associate professor of soci- Confessions of a Lexicographer ology at Rice, will present a lecture on reading Paul Horsley clubs on September 13. Dr. Long, who has done extensive research on the subject, will provide 11 an interesting historical perspective on reading For Your Information clubs, their impact on social change, and their status today. The October 10 program, a lecture 14 on presidential libraries, will be presented by Dr. The Friends of Fondren Library Harry J. Middleton, director of the LBJ Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Aus- 22 tin. In light of the recent speculation regarding Gifts to Fondren Library the future location ot a Bush presidential library, his remarks should prove timely and insightful. On the morning of October 28, the Friends of Fondren will once again cosponsor with Rice Engineering Alumni the Annual Homecoming Brunch. This year's event will honor Mary Lou Margrave and George Miner, Jr. As most Friends are aware, Mrs. Margrave has worked tirelessly for years on a variety of projects benefiting the Friends of Fondren. The brunch is a great way to start a Saturday morning, and there will still be plenty ot time to attend other homecoming activities. Managing Editor, Betty Charles; Editor, The Reception Honoring Rice Authors, Cory Masiak; Editorial Committee: which will be held January 17, has proved to be Samuel Carrington, Feme Hyman, one of the most popular events sponsored by the Nancy Rupp; Computer Consultant, Tim Freeland Friends. It will honor those authors related to Rice University (faculty, staff, alumni, and mem- Cover: Device of the fifteenth-century bers of the Friends) who have had books pub- English printer William Caxton. lished in 1989. Once again, we hope to have comments from several of the honorees, who may either read from their works or relate anec- dotes about writing and getting published. The annual Schubertiad takes place on February 4, and students of the Shepherd School of Music will, as in the past, perform a variety of nineteenth-century works. Last year's event was one of the most popular sponsored by the Friends, despite a severe ice storm that had hit Houston. We promise better weather this year. continued on page 1 The Flyleaf Page 1 On Our Marks Symbols of early printers adorn Fondren reference room. by Cory Masiak No sooner did the eight curious stenciled One of the most interesting marks historically designs appear on the walls ot the Wright is that of John Fust and Peter Schoeffer (Figure Reference Room during renovation ot Fondren la), who worked together in Mainz, Germany, Library than the rumors began to circulate: between 1457 and 1466. As presented in the Were these the symbolic doodlings of a satanic library, the mark is only one half ot the entire cult.' Was Fondren Library to display, along with device (Figure 4), which is distinguished as the the portraits of its founders, tokens of diabolic earliest printer's device. The full device bears import/ As one would expect, the explanation is two marks, each on a separate shield, and was significantly more prosaic than such speculation first used in the celebrated Psalter ot Mayence might suggest. Each design is in tact the mark ot (Mainz), printed in 1457 in a folio edition. This an early printer and as such was used to identity book was also the first to include the place and the work ot that printer. A printer's "mark" typi- date ot printing and the first to contain the cally consists of a simple figure formed of plain name of the typographer. lines, like those that encircle the reference room The arms on the sinister (reader's right) (Figures 1-2). Some ot these marks were in turn shield, a curved variant of which appear in part ot a printer's "device," which is a larger and Fondren, are those ot Schoetter. (The three more or less ornamental design. For example, stars became roses in a later period.) The mark Figure Ic represents the mark ot Robert Wyer, or arms on the dexter shield were at one time an English printer who worked in London from thought to be those ot Fust, but since the entire 1529 to 1560. His device, illustrated in Figure 3, device continued to be used by Schoeffer when dates from 1531 and incorporates his mark.' he worked alone after 1466, it is likely that the \y(s\ Q A' s dI ^ Figure 1. Marks, oj (diKkwise from upper left): a) John Fust Figure 2. Marks of (clockwise from upper left): a) John Byddle and Peter Schoeffer; h) Charbtte Giullard; c) Robert Wyer; h) Thomas Godfray; c) Richard jugge; d) }ohn Cauiood. d) Sumuei de Toiirnes. Page 2 The Flyleaf ^[JmpiynuS6yme3R.cSctt^r>t/b^ttr, c0e tcHt?/6ef^5ec^t;'nsc £toffc. Figure 3. Device oj Robert Wyer. The device pictures St. ]ohn the Evangelist, the patron of scriveners and possibly of primers as well, at work on the Book oj Revelation. At his right an eagle, John's animal symbol, holds a pen case and an inkwell m its beak. Wyer attests that the work in which this device appears, The Cronycle begynnynge at the vii. Ages ot the Worlde..., was "Imprynted by me Robert Wyre, dwellynge at the sygne of seynt John Evangelyste, in seynt Martyns Parysshe in the Felde, in the Bysshop of Norwytche rents, besyde charynge Crosse." dexter shield represents the mark ot Schoetfer. in 1455, the famous Latin bible was produced. The use of a double shield in a device was popu- Fust, finding the incidental production costs of lar in the early period of printing, and in many the bible excessive, instituted a lawsuit against cases the two shields refer to only one individ- Gutenberg, which led to the dissolution of the ual; one shield may display an individual's coat partnership. Gutenberg was obliged to reim- of arms and the other his mark. burse Fust, and all of Gutenberg's printing appa- The idea of shields suspended from a branch, ratus became the property of Fust. (Gutenberg as seen in Fust and Schoefter's device, is perhaps had once before been involved in a lawsuit, with derived from their being part ot the "family partners in Strasburg, when he tried to protect tree." A knight at a tournament would hang his his secret of printing from being disclosed. That shield by straps in a sloping position from the partnership too ended as a result.) Nonetheless, lopped branches of a tree. The device ot Fust Gutenberg continued to print until 1465, when and Schoeffer became the prototype of the pair he finally abandoned an art that, as one author of shields that was copied or adapted by about put it, "had caused him so much trouble and twenty different printers from 1470 to the end vexation."' of the century.
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