From Rhizome’s review of Alessandro Ludovico’s Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing since 1864.
Tessa Newcomb, a painted four-drawer chest (via Bonhams)
We put out the fire but there were, um, side-effects.
On Erasmus and his reed pen, via Anne Trubek on Twitter.
Mary the Modest was met in the lane By Someone or Something she couldn’t explain. Joseph the Honest looked up and God’s eye Was winking at him through a hole in the sky.
One of several comical rejected stanzas from Auden’s long poem For the Time Being — but if you want to see the others you’ll have to buy my critical edition of the poem, available in May at fine bookstores everywhere.
Portrety, 1922, from Russian Literature and Works on Paper
The Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms, 1931, Chernikov, from Russian Literature and Works on Paper
A page from the Odyssey, as printed by Aldus Manutius in Venice, courtesy of Sarah Werner. Amazing how beautiful Aldus’s books still are: those elegant typefaces, those thoughtful and serene layouts….