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Book design, dissected

Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.

  • In pictures

Our bodies inside out

A series of exquisite ink and watercolour illustrations reveal the incredible things going on under our skin.

  • In pictures

Your journey from cell to human

Find out how you became you with these ten highlights from ‘The Making of You’ by embryologist Katharina Vestre.

  • Book extract

Chasing down a mystery illness

In an extract from their graphic novel about a deadly, drug-resistant illness, Val McDermid and Kathryn Briggs explore why knowledge isn’t always the same as power.

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  • Book of illustrations to S. Maw, Son & Thompson's quarterly price-current : surgeons instruments, etc.
  • Joints of the human body: annotated illustrations, with proportions marked. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
  • Johannes Vesling, seated below a swag of surgical instruments, indicates illustrations of the heart in a book displayed by a skeletal corpse. Engraving 1666.
  • Proportions of the human body: annotated illustrations of the human face, body, hands and feet, with proportions marked. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
  • Proportions of the human body: annotated illustrations of the human body, with proportions marked, comparing the lengths of the arm and leg. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
  • Four faces expressing the passions: (clockwise from top left) hatred, wonder, love and jealousy; and (right) the frontispiece to the book containing the illustrations, a manual of acting. Engraving by Silvester, 1807.
  • The book of the feet, a history of boots and shoes. With illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period; Also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc / J. Sparkes Hall.
  • The book of the feet, a history of boots and shoes. With illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period; Also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc / J. Sparkes Hall.
  • M0008260: Midwifery forceps, book illustration
  • 'Human essence/semen', C16 Chinese painted book illustration
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