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Death Masks, Deneberg (1997) There are 21 poems in this book. Each is positioned on the verso, the left side. Some poems are as few as four lines of text grouped into a single column paragraph. There is a huge amount of bottom margin as well as left side. The text is grouped in the … Read more

The 12 Articles is an artbook, created on handmade torn cloth paper.  The text appears to be applied to the paper with a letterpress. The font type used in “The 12 Articles” is Bodoni, which is a serif typeface that originated in the 18th century.  This font style is considered modern and is often used … Read more

In Common Threads, each unnumbered page is roughly 24.1 cm l x 17.8 cm w with one inch inner margins that are marked by the distinct, red line that is found in most traditional composition notebooks. The upper margin is also one inch.  I’m not sure if I would describe this text as having a … Read more

Greg’s Second Blog Post October 17, 2023 Edgar Allan Poe was author of the poem in my pet book.  Gustave Dore´ illustrated the poem and put together the book many years after the death of Poe.  I believe the illustration above depicts both Poe and Dore´, with other elements to be discussed at a later … Read more

Mise en page and mise en texte for Euclid’s Geometry (1546) by Becka For some reason, I am unable to add any photos to this blog post due to “not enough space to upload”, so I apologize for the descriptions of images that my readers cannot see and will have to rely on my previous … Read more

This delightful and compact volume — 1928’s The House at Pooh Corner, written by British poet, playwright, and children’s book author Alan Alexander (A.A.) Milne — is very visual. That may sound patently silly, as most every book* is “visual,” comprising symbols and images that convey the book’s content and messages.  But The House at Pooh Corner … Read more

Cook books are interesting to me because they are meant to be used, not just as reading material, but as a guidebook on how to make something. Therefore, the way a cookbook is put together and laid out has to be practical. The expectation is that someone who is cooking from the book should be … Read more

At a glance, PPKG gives off ‘big head, tiny face’ meme vibes. Each page is grandiose – 28.25 x 22.25 cm – but the space isn’t maximized by the text. The text-block is one column about a third of that height and length. It’s left-aligned and justified, without line breaks, giving the impression that the … Read more

            This book is made up of folios, full printmaking paper size folded in half, with 4 pages an extended size folded in (these measurements are detailed in the first blog post).  I appreciate that the heft of this book, perhaps “cumbersome” to some book-lovers, is reflective of the heft I feel for extinctions of … Read more