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[BKARTS] FYI- for email lists, newsletters & websites: New publication
New publication available from the State Library of Victoria at
https://shop.slv.vic.gov.au/details.php?imageNo=SHOP0122
check website for details about prices and delivery costs.
The World of the Book
By Des Cowley and Clare Williamson
The Miegunyah Press in association with the State Library of Victoria,
2007
0-522-85378-1 Hardcover, 264 pages
AU$59.95 (inc. GST) New!
A journey through time and across the globe, this volume features great
books and publishing innovations of the past and present. It also revels
in the sheer beauty of books as objects to be desired and treasured.
Within these covers you will discover an illuminated manuscript created
for the Medici family of Florence in 1479; masterpieces of early printing,
such as Gutenberg's Bible and Aldus Manutius's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili;
books recording the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and
Newton; atlases and illustrated accounts from the great age of travel and
exploration; works by the great botanical and natural history artists,
such as Redouté, Audubon and Gould; the woodblock books of Japanese artist
Hokusai; the lavish productions by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press;
literary greats from William Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf; children's
books, Beat literature and pulp fiction, graphic novels, artists' books
and contemporary graphic design.
'The World of the Book' pays homage to our love of books, and demonstrates
the book's long and rich traditions and its great contributions to modern
life.
Des Cowley is Rare Printed Collections Manager at the State Library of
Victoria and Clare Williamson is Exhibitions Curator at the State Library
of Victoria.
They are joint curators of the State Library of Victoria's permanent
exhibition 'Mirror of the World: Books and Ideas'.
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