Gallery

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Beginnings

The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Childcraft: The How and Why Library: Folk and Fairy Tales, vol. 3
Title page

Experiments & Standards

"Colophon." [Brut, Chronicles of England] ms. [15th c.] Mich. Ms. 225
Historia Romana. Tr. Petrus Candidus Decembrius.
The Art and Craft of Printing:  A Note on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus,
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem

Imagery Upfront

Homeri Ilias.
De Naturæ Diuinis Characterismis; Seu, Raris & Admirandis Spectaculis, Causis, Indiciis, Proprietatibus Rerum in Partibus Singulis Vniuersi,
The Workes of Ovr Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chavcer, Newly Printed.
The Workes of Ovr Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chavcer, Newly Printed.
The Experienced English Housekeeper: For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c.: Written Purely from Practice.
The Experienced English Housekeeper: For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c . . .
Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855 ... 1888.

Censure & Camouflage

Index Librorum Prohibitorum Sanctissimi Domini Nostri Pii Septimi Pontificis Maximi Jussu Editus.
I principii della Theologia di Ippofilo da Terra Negra.
Les Nuits de Paris, Ou, Le Spectateur Nocturne
Neues S. A. Liederbuch
Front Cover of Neues S. A. Liederbuch [Laughter in Hell]
Title Page of Neues S. A. Liederbuch [Laughter in Hell]
Cover Page of Kärlek med förhinder / texte der RAF.
Title Page of Kärlek med förhinder / texte der RAF