
Nature printing
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
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
What is space on the page? In M. NourbeSe Philip‘s poem Zong! the space around words appears as an element in its own right. The poem is based on the case of drowning of enslaved Africans from a ship on … Continue reading Printing the archive … a fragment of Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip (2008)
The Bodleian’s Bibliographical Press is located in the Old Bodleian Library in a ground-floor room, the Schola Musicae, opening from the Old Schools Quadrangle. Inside are free-standing iron presses (four Albions and a Columbian), a ‘Western’ model proofing press, a star-wheel etching press, a number of table-top presses, and several composing frames, including three seventeenth-century frames, with a quantity of wooden and metal type. The room hosts classes in hand-printing for students from Oxford and other universities, and regular workshops for families, adults, and primary school groups. Latest inspirations Working presses in the Bodleian letterpress studio: Large John & Jeremiah … Continue reading The Bodleian Bibliographical Press
The Bodleian Libraries hold two copies of the first folio edition of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623). These have not always been in the Library, though; hear about the tangled history of the ‘Bodleian’ copy from Emma Smith, here. And see the fully-digitised copy, shelfmarked Arch. G c.7, here. And read here about the conservation effort to secure this volume. See the list of digitized First Folios maintained by Sarah Werner at her blog Wynken de Worde http://sarahwerner.net/blog/digitized-first-folios/ Continue reading The ‘Bodleian’ First Folio