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
Category: Printing the archive
Printing the archive … a fragment of Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip (2008)
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)
Teaching the book: Resources for bibliography and book history in the hand-press period 