While the Industrial Revolution had transformed manufacturing across England by the early 1800s, book production remained largely unchanged since Johannes Gutenberg’s groundbreaking movable-type printing in the 1450s. The current exhibition at the Grolier Club from January 14 – April 11,
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Jane Ziegelman : Books Commemorating Lost Jewish Communities
Online Virtual Talk with Jane Ziegelman / The Grolier Club 20 February 2026 Registrations (free of charge) Jane Ziegelman, author of Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World explores in her online talk
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The ‚Library of Lost Books‘ project, run in cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Friends and Sponsors of the Leo Baeck Institute e.V., sheds light on the history of the
WeiterlesenMuseum Gutenberg : Ich drucke! I print!
Ich drucke! Signet, Marke und Druckerzeichen seit dem Zeitalter Gutenbergs I print! Signet, brand, and printer’s mark since the age of Gutenberg Exhibition Gutenberg Museum Mainz 28. November 2025 bis 22. Februar 2026 To mark the 625th anniversary of Gutenberg’s
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In his audio essay on kontrafunk, Uwe Jochum reports on the rise and fall of the famous Library of Alexandria. The announcement for the broadcast on August, 12 2024 on kontrafunk states: Burning libraries, like burning churches, are a
WeiterlesenEni Oken : Pop-up Mechanism Booklets
Eni Oken has compiled the best-known forms of pop-up engineering in two small books with samples, accompanied by brief explanations. Eni Oken has been an art instructor for over 30 years and has written hundreds of articles, tutorials, video lessons
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Otto Rohse (* July 2, 1925 in Insterburg, East Prussia; † March 5, 2016 in Hamburg) is one of the most important German book artists of the 20th century. As a book designer, typographer, wood and copperplate engraver and illustrator,
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Published in consecutive parts from 1790, Friedrich Justin Bertuch’s picture book for children provided a comprehensive overview of the knowledge of the time, including natural history and history. Over seven thousand copperplate engravings of the highest quality made it made
WeiterlesenKinderbuch-Sammlung Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt
Die Hamburger Literaturstiftung übergibt der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky Hamburg die umfangreiche Privatsammlung an Kinder- und Jugendbüchern sowie Fachliteratur aus dem Nachlass von Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt. Seit dem Tod der Wahlhamburgerin Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt (1927–2022) schlummerte ihre Sammlung
WeiterlesenAntiquariat Geisenheyner / Germany : Bulletin 18 Summer 2025
Antiquariat Geisenheyner in Münster / Germany has put Bulletin 18 Summer 2025 online. Listed are 258 works from the fields of picture books, fairy tales and legends, which as usual are expertly annotated and for the most part also illustrated.
WeiterlesenAnna Lehninger : Heidi, Pinocchio und der Tod. Die Bilderwelt von Martha Pfannenschmid (1900 – 1999)
In 1944, the Zurich-based Silva publishing house published an edition of Johanna Spyri’s classic Heidi, which was designed as a scrapbook to hold 121 small-format watercolors. It quickly proved to be a great success, and in 1946 the second volume
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colibri stands for Corpus Libri et Liberi and refers to a project funded by the German Research Foundation in 2021 for the digitization of children’s and young adult literature. The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the University Library of
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colibri steht für Corpus Libri et Liberi und bezeichnet ein von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gefördertes in 2021 aufgelegtes Projekt zur Digitalisierung von Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Beteiligt sind die Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, die Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Braunschweig,
WeiterlesenAnniversaries : Rilke, Mann und Meggendorfer
The year 2025 marks the anniversaries of some great writers. There is Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) on the occasion of his 150th birthday and the 100th anniversary of his death the following year. Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955)
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