#grangerize

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Word of the Day: grangerize

v. illustrate (a book) by later insertion of material, especially prints cut from other works

Image Credit: “Reading” by Unsplash. Public Domain via Pixabay.

[huntingtonlibrary]

"Illuminated Palaces" opens today!!

captions: Virgil, Opera. Nuremberg, 1492. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Rehearsing a Tragedy. New York, 1889. Illustrated by Augustin Daly. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Elizabeth Stone, Chronicles of Fashion. London, 1845. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

Author unknown, Bagnigge-Wells; A Poem. London, 1779. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.

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You know you want to learn to grangerize. Even if it's fallen out of favor with modern conservators.

Read more—and watch the print-inlaying portion of the grangerizing process in all its stopmotion glory—on Verso.

[huntingtonlibrary]

Behind the scenes at yesterday's video shoot for the upcoming "Illuminated Palaces: Extra-Illustrated Books from the Huntington Library," opening in the West Hall in late July. With Kate Lain behind the video camera, conservator Jessamy Gloor demonstrates the delicate craft of inlaying, a technique used in the once-popular process of "Grangerizing"—customizing printed books by adding in illustrations and other materials.

Photos by Stephen Tabor, The Huntington's curator of early printed books and one of the curators of "Illuminated Palaces."