#foldout friday

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We did some obscure poetry explorations and found this beautiful publisher’s binding of World War I English poet Edmund Blunden (1896-1974).

We were even more excited to see the stunning marbling on the inside, as well as handwritten letters to a mysterious Mr. Jackson, a letter from an editor, and early drafts of some of his poetry pasted to the front pages as foldouts.

To read more on Edmund Blunden, check out this site.

Hannah

Blunden PR6003 .L8  P6

Blunden, Edmund. The Poems of Edmund Blunden. London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1930.

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I previously posted about an artist book in our collection based on the concept of Andean quipus. 

Terry Horrigan of Protean Press and Catherine Mutz collaborated on the book Quipu, which consists of a scholarly essay on quipus and a beautiful Turkish map foldout inspired by one of the quipus in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia y Arqueologia in Lima, Peru.

-John

Mutz, Catherine and Terry Horrigan. Quipu. San Francisco: Protean, 2004.