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Re-using woodblocks
It’s quite often the case in early printed books that the same images reappear in different scenes, within books, and across different books. Woodblocks…
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Church Pew Graffiti
I went camping in Norfolk last week and between the campfires and the swimming I visited St Nicholas Church, Salthouse, where many of the pews have…
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Francis Douce’s resignation letter
Francis Douce (1757-1834) was the Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. He bequeathed more than 19,000 printed books to the Bodleian Library in…
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A Multitude of New “Allans”
Among the many works of Barbara Rosenthal – an American avant-garde artist, writer and performer (b. 1948) who sometimes goes by the name of Homo…
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Nico's self-reflexive book
I bought a copy of Andy Warhol’s silver-covered Index on a recent Significant Birthday for about the same price as my car’s last M.O.T. The book, which…
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Anthony Sharp, vintner, died
I’ve always preferred a list to a narrative, and one of my favourite books is The Obituary of Richard Smyth.[1] The subtitle explains its ambitions…
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Keats and Me
A friend of a friend recently asked me what I thought of John Keats. In 2009, I was cycling down Grafton Road, near Gospel Oak in north London, on my…
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TEXT!
literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of 1st personness
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