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Did you know that if you streched out all the shelves in the New York Public Library, the shelves would extend eighty miles? The books most often requested at the NYPL are about drugs, witchcraft, atrology and Shakespeare.
With fires raging across the West, thoughts turn to the heartbreak and fear of thousands of people as they evacuate their homes. One of the few ways I can offer assistance is by providing some information about what to do next if fire damage does occur. While health and safety must come first, after a building inspector has cleared your structure, the work of recovery can begin.
The Library of Congress--the world’s largest repository of knowledge and information--is beginning its multiyear "Celebration of the Book" with an exhibition, "Books That Shaped America," opening June 25. The exhibition is part of a larger series of programs, symposia and other events that explore the important and varied ways that books influence our lives. The "Books That Shaped America" exhibition will be on view from June 25 through Sept. 29 in the Southwest Gallery, located on the second floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. This exhibition is made possible through the support of the National Book Festival Fund.
Books That Shaped America Exhibition - News Releases (Library of Congress)
The book, "El Libro que No Puede Esperar" (The Book That Can't Wait), comes sealed in a plastic wrapper. Once the wrapper is removed and the book is cracked, the ink begins to age; it's got a lifespan of less than two months. Just months after being opened, The Book That Can't Wait is filled with nothing but blank pages.
A book written in disappearing ink [video] - latimes.com
Heinrich Khunrath. Ampitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (Hamburg, 1595), or “The Amphitheater of Eternal Knowledge”
Genevieve and Eliza drew one illustration on either side of the sixty-five-pound lithographic stones. Then the stones were packed in crates for protection and shipped fifty miles to the Adolph Krebs Lithographic Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, for printing. The Robert Clark Company, also of Cincinnati, printed the pages of text for the book.
full essay here
In the late 1800s, Genevieve Jones set out to create the first book in America to catalogue the nests and eggs of birds. But when Jones tragically died of typhoid, her family made the remarkable commitment to complete the project. Melissa Block talks with Joy Kiser, who has once again published the illustrations and wrote the story behind their creation in her book, America's Other Audubon.
The 'Other Audubon': A Family's Passion : NPR
Dublin on June 16, 1904, created from text from James Joyce’s Ulysses
(via: Map Sculptures of Cities Made from Books About Each City | Brain Pickings)
The Cooper Square (Pageant Books) Facsimile was the first facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible ever attempted outside of Germany. Nearly 60 years earlier Insel-Velag, a German publisher had successfully printed 300 copies - of which virtually none were available. Cooper Square begin a five-year process to recreated the famed 42-line bible and make it available to the world again. Their intent was to create an American tribute celebrating the 500th anniversary of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. Only the best of American craftsmen and technology would be employed to complete the project. (via Lost Gutenbergs: An Interview with Tim Yancey - The Fine Books Blog)
Smileys, 1881
Late 19th Century emoticons, via The Retronaut
PK Note: For a year, I was working on the Google Print project in Oxford, and one of the books we encountered (whose name I have completely forgotten) arrived in it’s own white box, featuring an average size book with an additional smaler one. The books were basically printshop humour of the time, early examples of text-based art, such as emoticon smilies and character decoration. It wasn’t suitable for digitalization as it was published on the cusp of the copyright window (no books during and after 1885 were processed), but it was a fantastic little discovery.
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Scan This Book! - New York Times
(via Artists' Books and Multiples: Valentin Carron | Learning from Martigny)
nukii | national and university library. ljubljana / NL Architects
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A book myself, Nisha Gouveia and Lydia Briggs designed with the assistance of Charlie Abbott, Jake Hopwood and Alex Hough from Camberwell Press. The book documents the process’ involved in designing, printing and making books through the analysis of a three week project called The Shape of Things, that we completed as first years. Shapes on a Page was printed by Hato Press
