Greta Garbo’s bookplate, via DRB.
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“Studiolo of Francesco I,” one of Abigail Reynolds’s cut bookplate works.
View larger image at MOON RIVER
Via benjaminhilts:
William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaug - Agrippa: a book of the dead
A collaboration between the artist Dennis Ashbaugh and the author William Gibson, this book is designed to self-destruct on use. A computer floppy disk encrypted with a virus contains an autobiographical text by William Gibson relating to the death of his father when the author was aged six, triggered by the discovery of his father’s old photograph album, a type marketed by Kodak in the 1920s under the name ‘Agrippa’. When the disk is viewed, the words of the story begin scrolling up the screen at a preset speed, the virus corrupting all the data. The first ‘reading’ of the disk is therefore also the last. The disk is contained in a cut-out portion of the book and is accompanied by a 46 page ‘text’ of DNA code and a series of copperplate etchings by Ashbaugh representing images of human genes, the latter printed in ink designed to rub off if touched which echoes the book’s theme of decay. Held in a dark slate-grey case with a base of honeycombed board reinforced with wire wire mesh and distressed paper, treated to simulate corrosion and fire damage.
Illustration from Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels by David A. Beronä. More scans from the book at BibliOdyssey.
“Lacks Subtlety”
From The Illustrated Winespeak: Ronald Searle’s Wicked World of Winetasting, a collection of caricatures “satirising the jargon of the would-be wine connoisseur.” Via BibliOdyssey.
Eclipses luminarium summa fide et accurata diligentia supputatae, ac figuris coloribusque suis artificiose depictae, quarum rationes ab anno domini 1554. usque in annum domini 1600. se extendunt et ad meridianum Viennae Austriae referuntur by Cyprian Leowitz.
As my Latin is seriously poor these days, I’ll use BibliOdyssey’s translation so as to not embarrass myself: Accurate coloured depictions of solar and lunar eclipses covering the years 1554 to 1600 with Vienna, Austria as the point of reference.
Peacay at BibliOdyssey: “The only information I can glean from the web suggests that Leowitz was a Bohemian astrologer and a contemporary of Nostradamus. Most (very very brief) citations mention that his notoriety centres on his having predicted that the world would end in 1584. I think that assertion was made in 1568 and a comment at one site opined that he was hedging his bets by publishing luna/solar data for the time subsequent to the predicted apocalypse (my first thought here is that the author is conflating two publications of Leowitz from different times.)”
More here.
“Language of the Birds,” an installation using LED-lighted books located at Columbus and Broadway in North Beach, San Francisco.
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