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othmeralia · 2 years

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Protolume chimico e cheggiante di condupplicati paraphrasi (1682) by Giovanni Francesco Aggravi.

This book is part of our Neville Collection which was purchased from Roy G. Neville. This is a first edition Venetian copy, 12mo. 6 leaves, and woodcut printer's ornament on the title page. It is bound in contemporary vellum with old ink lettering on spine.

Nothing seems to be known of the author, Giovanni Francesco Aggravi (if you know information that might help, let us know! He's most likely from the 17th century). The first half of this book covers chemical apparatus, operations, and process, with the second half focusing on an alphabetical list of preparations of chemicals, mainly for pharmaceutical uses.

#rare books #old books #neville collection #title page tuesday #title page #rare book alert #printers device #woodcuts #woodcut wednesday #woodcut #early printing #othmeralia

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polararts · 1 year

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It's a period piece~

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toteangel · 3 months

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the it print 𐙚 ‧₊˚ ⋅

#catrkive #early 2000s #trashy y2k #y2kcore #y2k aesthetic #y2k fashion #y2k style #y2k #trashy 2000s #leopard #leopard print #bimbo fashion #bimbocore #bimbo babe #ageha #gyaru girl #gyaru #gyaru magazine

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trashy2ksblog · 21 days

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oediex · 2 years

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Some of the earliest printed materials in the 15th century were forms, with blanks for people to fill in. As Leah Price explains in What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (New York: Basic Books, 2019):

"The earliest surviving specimen of printing in the West whose publication date we know for sure doesn't come from a grand Bible (...) It takes the form of one of the documents that Gutenberg and his partners churned out more frenetically than any book: papal indulgences. (...) With their blank spaces meant to be filled in by sinful purchasers, they were the first form letters." (p.54)

She then continues to write that they were one of the most common early productions of Gutenberg's press. Quite a few of them have survived the passing of time simply because so many of them were printed.

"A mass-produced object can survive despite a low preservation rate." (p. 55)

Their survival, as opposed to rare and expensive books, like the Gutenberg Bible, was often by accident:

"many copies whose blanks were not filled in have been preserved as binders' waste, recycled as raw material for the spines of later volumes." (p. 55)

Price also suggests that it's possible that blanks to be filled in by red letters and hand-decorated initials in the Gutenberg Bible might have been modeled after the fill-in-the-blanks form of indulgences. (p. 55)

One last interesting tidbit is when she points out papal indulgences were a lot better for business than books:

"early printers saw books as a headache, indulgences as a godsend. Each indulgence was a single sheet on a single side, so there was no fiddling with the order of pages, and print runs were in the hundreds or thousands, so the start-up costs of setting type were quickly amortized." (p. 56)

On top of that, printed papal indulgences were commissioned by the church and so immediately bought out. There was no need to worry about distribution logistics and the many carters, wholesalers, retailers etc. who all took a cut from the sales.

#books #reading #print #johannes gutenberg #early printing #15th century #history of books

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pwlanier · 1 year

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Bound for Taos

Artist:

Gustave Baumann (American, 1881 - 1971)

Date:

1936

Medium:

color woodcut on flax fiber paper

Stark Museum

This is really cool. For woodcut prints the artist has to carve a block

for each color.

#early indiana art #brown county #gustave baumann #woodcut print

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missdivsworld · 1 month

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Love a cute phone case🩷

#mcbling #2000s #girlblog #zebra print #cheetah #early 2000s

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nuveau-deco · 7 months

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Lace Fan and Collar Designs from the MAK Museum Vienna's Exemplary Sample Collection. Photographed by Wilhelm Gmeiner between 1901–1903 in Vienna; medium is albumen printing.

(Object Links: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 )

#lace #pattern #textiles #swatches #archival photos #early 1900s #austrian design #art nouveau #nature motif #flowers #albumen print #paper #black #beige #b&w

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beifongkendo · 10 months

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Early summer at Sanzen-in, Kyoto, by Fujishima Takeji (1951).

#ukiyo-e #woodblock print #sanzen-in #kyoto #temple #early summer #forest #fujishima takeji

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53v3nfrn5 · 2 months

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Nintendo: Game Boy Advance SP in “Flame” Advertisement (2003)

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thetidemice · 1 month

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my paleo inspired monotypes 💞

#my art #art #paleoart #paleolithic #cave paintings #early humans #printing #monotype #monoprint #color pencil #collage #palaeoart #archaeology #paleoanthropology

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the-cricket-chirps · 9 months

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Asai Kiyoshi

Early Cat

Ca. 1940s.

#modern art #asai kiyoshi #cat #woodblock print #japanese woodblock #japanese artist #cats in art #cats of tumblr #japanese prints #early cat #1940s style #1940s #1940s art #japanese print #japanese art

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kaekae444 · 19 days

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so incredibly jealous i'm not a 2007 Ke$ha blackberry zebra stripe cheetah print bug eyed sunglasses digital camera fallout boy facebook coded older sister 😔