strange bindery
Emma Jane Hogbin has produced a wonderful variety of hand bookbindings.
doings in Denmark
The Ludlow/Linotype teaching studio is now fully operational with the installation of an 800 pound composing stone. This was placed on its reconstructed galley rack today.
Anna worked with Larry setting on the model 31 while the afternoon
train stopped outside.
paper doll chronicles
“I am an aspiring rare book librarian who believes that the printed word and the digital word are not necessarily at odds, and in this blog I hope to explore this topic further.”
Vernica
This niffty blog has kindly linked to FotB.
fair and balanced
“The Prophet instructed the city marshal to abate the nuisance which he and his men accomplished by breaking into the printing shop, throwing the press into street where it was smashed with a sledge hammer, dumping the type into the street, and burning the undistributed copies of the newspaper.”
While early pre-Christian sects offer the example of the influence of writing and reading of new scripture, latter day sects were also interested in media management. The mid 19th century history of the lower DesPlaines River valley in south east Iowa is particularly interesting. There was
papermaking and printing at Bentonsport. There was
book printing at Nauvoo. Towns and sects were busy validating their visions.
