Tag Archives: books
eBay: PROJECT SWORD ANNUAL 1968
After more than four years’ membership of eBay, I finally won something. Sure I’ve Bought This Item Now!, but that’s not the same. Anyway, this is what I’ve bought: the only published annual for an aborted Gerry Anderson TV series, … more…
International Dunhuang Project
In 1900 a hidden cave was discovered at a Buddhist site near the ancient Silk Road town of Dunhuang. Sealed in about 1000 AD, it contained tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings and printed documents on paper and silk dating … more…
Surrealist Subversions
From its auspicious beginnings in the summer of 1966 to the present, the Chicago Surrealist Group — and the Surrealist Movement in the United States, which grew out of it — have continued to foment an exhilarating whirlwind of revolt … more…
Science and the Artist’s Book
I don’t remember who pointed this one out a week or so ago and I don’t have time right now to go trawling (apologies to whoever it was) but this online exhibition shows copies of landmark science texts along with … more…
Schøyen manuscript collection
Schøyen manuscript collection – this is a partial catalogue of 222 pieces out of the 12,536 items in what is claimed to be the largest private manuscript collection formed in the 20th Century. There are pieces from all over the … more…
Lipsum.com
Well, there goes another myth. Lipsum.com is a site dedicated to the “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text as used by typographers, layout artistes and web designers to designate block text provides a brief but fascinating history, and reveals that contrary to … more…
British Library online book presentation
Turning the Pages is the rather ungainly title of a digital book presentation system developed by the British Library to show the insides of books that are too fragile and precious to be handled. The first four specimens were exhiibited … more…
BookCrossing – FREE YOUR BOOKS!
Interesting and cute project at BookCrossing – Home – FREE YOUR BOOKS! – whereby books, having been read, registered, and released into the wild by whatever means, will be monitored and reported on into the futurity. This is either explained … more…