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Washi memories |
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Photographs of the Anzai family of papermakers and others at work, with samples of their papers, with a commentary by Eleanor Burkett |
On Books |
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The creative work of Susan Allix with a catalogue raisonné, by Simon Shorvon |
Into the Lagoon |
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The islands and towns of the Venetian lagoon in 1914 with images by Leslie Gerry |
The Lost Colours of the Cyclades |
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A new study of colour in the Greek islands by John Sutcliffe |
Alchemy of the Planets |
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Images by Philip Hughes and poems by Carmen Boullosa, inspired by space missions past and present |
Stockholm Reflections |
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Modern and ancient responses to the vibrant Stockholm waterfront, with digital images by Leslie Gerry |
Palladio's Homes |
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Andrea Palladio on building a home, and what others have thought of those that he built, illustrated by Carlo Rapp, with an essay by Witold Rybczynski |
At nightfall on the shortest day |
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An evocative text by Peter Davidson with a wood-engraving by Paul Kershaw |
An Italian Dream |
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Charles Dickens thinks he has been to Venice, but isn't sure |
Jump of the Manta Ray |
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A poem in Spanish by Carmen Boullosa, translated by Psiche Hughes, with images by Philip Hughes |
tokonoma |
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Twenty haiku and tanka by James Kirkup with wood cuts by Naoko Matsubara |
Zapf and Stauffacher |
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The story of a collaboration between type designer and typographer, by Ferdinand Ulrich |
Paper making by hand in 1953 |
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A valuable description of the process of making paper by hand at Barcham Green's Hayle Mill |
Making paper at Abbey Mills |
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Instructions for making paper from esparto grass, and more, printed on a selection of Abbey Mills papers |
Printing at the University Press, Oxford, 1660-1780 |
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The first definitive narrative about work at one of the greatest of English presses, in three volumes |
The Daniel Press in Frome |
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The Daniel family and their press in Frome, by David Chambers and Martyn Ould |
Tonge's Travels |
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The diary of an Oxford undergraduate: the Mediterranean by cargo steamer in 1857 |
De Sitv Dvnelmi – On Durham |
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The last poem in Old English, translated and introduced by David Crane, with a nineteenth century wood-engraving |
Figures in a Setting |
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A collection of six poems by James Kirkup, with line drawings by John Watts |
Chesil Beach |
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A poem by David Burnett, with a wood-engraving by Christopher Wormell |
Lowlands Away |
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An oratorio in ten parts by Adrian Henri with pastel images by Adrian Henri |
A Long Story |
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A four-part poem by Andrew Motion, with four wood-engravings by Simon Brett |
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