Great images of books from around the world and the Web.
Over at Design Observer, there’s a very interesting short history of the dust jacket. They were originally meant to be protective wrapping for books made out of delicate or fine material, and were typically discarded. Above, a dust jacket believed to be one of the oldest in existence, discovered this April at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.
Photography courtesy of Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
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Posted on Nov 9th, 2009 by Thessaly La Force in 1,000 Words, Flickr, Oxford University, books, dust jacket |
“Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker” chronicles the game’s unique relationship to America.
Visit your local independent shop today, National Bookstore Day.
Neanderthals weren’t as stupid as we think.
A tech-crazy world still has room for scribes.
Would the time you spent reading Proust have been better spent “visiting a demented relative”?
Bram Stoker shares a birthday with the Dracula-like Vlad the Impaler.
The first dust jacket was introduced in 1830.
Posted on Nov 9th, 2009 by Ian Crouch in Bram Stoker, In the News, Neanderthals, Proust, Vlad the Impaler, bookstores, dust jacket, memoir, poker, scribes |
