Stories
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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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.
Catalogue
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Zoological illustration : an essay towards a history of printed zoological pictures / David Knight.
Knight, David M.Date: 1977- Books
Historia animalium. [Vol.] I, Books I-III / Aristotle ; with an English translation by A.L. Peck.
Aristotle.Date: 1965- Books
History of animals. Books VII-X / Aristotle ; edited and translated by D.M. Balme ; prepared for publication by Allan Gotthelf.
Aristotle.Date: 1991- Books
Physiologus : a metrical bestiary of twelve chapters / by Bishop Theobald, printed in Cologne 1492. The author is believed to have been abbot of Monte Cassino, A.D. 1022-1035, and a description of the abbey is appended with illustrations ; translated by Alan Wood Rendell.
Theobaldus, Episcopus, active 1025.Date: 1928- Books
Historia animalium. Vol. I, Books I-X : text / Aristotle ; edited by D.M. Balme ; presented for publication by Allan Gotthelf.
Aristotle.Date: 2002