Spotlights
These focused studies of individual works were produced in 2018 by MLIS students in the History of the Book class in UCLA's Department of Information Studies under supervision of Professor Johanna Drucker. Students were assigned the task of locating a work in Special Collections connected to their own interests and then researching it in order to write a study that would make the book interesting and available to a general audience.
- Elisabeth Asher, Godey's Lady's Book, June 1865
- Gracen Blackwell, A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, 1772
- Isabelle Briggs, The World's Worst Marbled Papers, with Introduction and Commentary by Theodore Bachaus [Henry Morris], San Serriffe Publishing Company [Bird and Bull Press], 1978
- Kathryn Brunet, De Claris Mulieribus (On Famous Women) by Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo, 1497
- Alex Carrillo, Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson, 1859
- Marissa Chavez,Tales of Old Japan by A.B. Mitford, 1871
- Erika Esquivel, Opera noua contemplatiua p[er] ogni fidel christiano laquale tratta de le figure del testamento vecchio, Andrea Vavassori, 1530
- Julie Fiveash, The English Physitian, Nicholas Culpeper, 1652
- Becky French, A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical Beauties for Young Ladies. Intended to Lead the Female Mind to the Love and Practice of Moral Goodness. Designed Principally for the Use of Ladies' Schools, by Mary Pilkington, 1798
- Megan Gilbert, Daphnis and Chloe, by Charles Valentine Le Grice, 1803
- Maddy Gillette, The Juvenile Library of John Ludford, 1746-1781
- Molly Hemphill, The Gossip / The Haunted Priory
- Yoonha Hwang, Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Types, Collected and Described by Melvin P. McGovern, 1966
- Tanya Knipprath, Trattato di scienza d' arme: et un dialogo in detta materia, Camillo Agrippa, 1568
- Olivia Kope, Laws of Contrast of Color, by Michel Èugene Chevreul
- Savannah Lake, Legendario delle Santissime Vergini, or Legends of the Most Holy Virgins, 1594
- Amanda Lorge, The Mycophagists' Book by Patricia Healy Evans, 1951
- Melissa Maldonado, Regional Dictionary of Chicano Slang
- Liza Mardoyan, The Gladzor Gospels, Illuminated Manuscript, 1300-1307
- Erin McAllister, Dante's The Divine Comedy by William Blake, 1824-27
- Carolina Meneses, Chorégraphie, ou, L'art de décrire la dance by Raoul Auger Feuillet, 1713
- Lauren Molina, Poli Testacea Vtrivsqve Sicicliae, 1791
- Rachel Poutasse, Naturalis Historia, by Pliny the Elder, published by Nicolas Jenson, 1472
- Graciela Ramirez, Portrait of the Four Evangelists, 1400-1499
- Michaela Rodgers, Mentoria: Or, the Young Ladies Instructor by Ann Murry, 5th edition, 1787
- Megan Sallabedra, Etchings of the Franciscan Missions of California, Henry Chapman Ford, 1883
- Rhonda Sharrah, Bashārat Yasuʻ al-Masīḥ kamā kataba Mār Mattay waḥid min ithnay ʻashar min talāmīdhihi, Euangelium Iesu Christi quemadmodum scripsit Mar Mattheus unus ex duodecim discipulis eius, 1591
- A. Slater, Focalóir Gaoidhilge-Sax-Bhéarla or an Irish-English Dictionary, 1768
- Joanna Smith, Curious Creatures: A new MOVEABLE TOYBOOK of all Kinds of Animals, by Lothar Meggendorfer, 1890
- Alexandra Solodkya, Sluzhebnik, ustav Bozhestvenniyia sluzhby, Orthodox Eastern Church, 1554
- Alex Valencia, The New Japan Spelling Book, William E. Griffis, 1872
- Dianne Weinthal, Taiheiki eiyūden by Yoshiiku Ochiai (Utagawa Yoshiiku), 1867
- Alexandra Whalen, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, 1866
- Daniel Williford, The History of Reynard the Foxe, by William Caxton, Kelmscott Press, 1892