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Miniatures from a facsimile of "Chirugia," a 14th C. Latin translation of a textbook on surgery by Arab physician Abu al-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Abbas al-Zahrawi. Court physician to Western Umayyad Caliph al-Hakam II (961-976 CE), Al-Zahrawi combined Greek…

How was it put together? Is everything there? Questions for anyone who studies an early printed book, even an online digital copy. If you like puzzles, early printed books may be for you.

Over centuries of use, misuse, vandalism, repair, and…

Elephants! From A New History of Ethiopia: being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia: vulgarly, though erroneously called the empire of Prester John / by Hiob Ludolf, printed for Samuel Smith, bookseller, at the Prince's Arms…

#marbledmonday

We continue a week devoted to the arts of book making and book ownership with a selection of bookplates. Ex libris = From the books (library).

The first is a visual pun on the name of Alfred Church Lane, Pearson Professor of Geology & Minerology,…

A selection of bindings, 15th - 19th centuries:

1. In memoriam, Alfred Tennyson, printed and bound at the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, NY, 1898

2. Sir Perecyvelle of Gales, printed by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press, 1895,…

Grade 10, Age 16
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School
Oak Bluffs, MA
Gold Key – Photography
Chris Baer, Educator

Grade 12, Age 17
Reading Memorial High School Reading, MA
Silver Key – Digital Art
Susan Gilbert, Educator

Grade 8, Age 14
William Diamond Middle School Lexington, MA
Silver Key – Drawing & Illustration
Yuanan Cheng, Educator

Grade 8, Age 13 Fay School Southborough, MA
Gold Key – Drawing & Illustration Yuanan Cheng, Educator