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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.

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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.

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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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  • Three Royal Dutch book covers.
  • A book cover designed as a board game about safer sex risks. Colour lithograph by the Walraven Book Cover Company, 1992.
  • The book of Beauty Culture, inside cover and
  • The cover of a Buddhist painted book box. Drawing by an Indian artist.
  • Front cover of a drawing book for students by J. D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel, A. Aglio, & c. Letterpress.
  • An American sailor looking at a prostitute with a warning to use a condom as a protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Lithographic match-book cover.
  • A notebook allegedly covered in human skin. The label reads 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin from the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence'. c. 1770 - 1850
  • A notebook allegedly covered in human skin. The label reads 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin from the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence'. c. 1770 - 1850
  • A notebook allegedly covered in human skin. The label reads 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin from the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence'. c. 1770 - 1850
  • A notebook allegedly covered in human skin. The label reads 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin from the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence'. c. 1770 - 1850
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