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Nature printing

March 30, 2022April 8, 2022 Teaching the Book

Recently I spent a week in the Bodleian’s Weston Library for Special Collections, investigating books which feature specimens depicted using a technique called ‘nature printing’. Continue reading Nature printing

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Copper plates research at the Bodleian Library: the Rawlinson plates

June 3, 2021 Teaching the Book

This post by Collaborative Doctoral Partnership student Chiara Betti, who is examining the Rawlinson collection of copper plates at the Bodleian Library, is re-blogged from the St John’s College, Oxford, blog where you can read the full text. In 1756 the … Continue reading Copper plates research at the Bodleian Library: the Rawlinson plates

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Nineteenth-century copper plates

Copper plates

July 13, 2020October 29, 2020 Teaching the Book

Engraved or etched copper plates offer the intricacy of their surfaces to view. But one of the most important teachable features of these objects may be on the reverse. Turn the plate over, and look for areas of hammering which … Continue reading Copper plates

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