Stories
- Article
Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
- Book extract
You know the drill
Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.
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The fine line between collecting and hoarding
Being ‘a collector’ is often celebrated but being labelled ‘a hoarder’ can be humiliating, at best. Georgie Evans asks what makes one set of objects a collection and another a hoard.
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Book Collecting in Britain in the 1930s
Date: 1973Reference: SB/4/1/55Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Books
Books and book-collecting / G. L. Brook.
Brook, G. L. (George Leslie), 1910-1987.Date: 1980- Books
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The Early years of Native American art history : the politics of scholarship and collecting / edited by Janet Catherine Berlo.
Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
Understanding book-collecting / Grant Uden.
Uden, Grant.Date: [1982], ©1982- Books
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Possessing nature : museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy / Paula Findlen.
Findlen, PaulaDate: 1996