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Diversify Book History resources: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ICnolYXSFM1HHoD40LRWURbfodp46FTSqHFhS2myfCE/htmlview | Diversify Book History resources: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ICnolYXSFM1HHoD40LRWURbfodp46FTSqHFhS2myfCE/htmlview | ||
History of printing for the blind | |||
* Valentin Haüy's Essai sur l'Education des Aveugles, 1786 -- embossed and printed, pages glued together to make it seem more like a typical codex | |||
* Proposed Alphabets for the Blind, 1836, from an 1832 contest: https://www.flickr.com/photos/perkinsarchive/albums/72157659520932380 -- important to preserve roman alphabet | |||
* Boston line type, or Howe's line type | |||
* History of France, 1837, first fully embossed book in Braille | |||
* Moon type, developed by William Moon, of Brighton School for the Blind in England | |||
* APH, American Printing House for the Blind | |||
* New York Dot System, 8-point developed separately from Braille | |||
* American Braille introduced around 1879 | |||
Revision as of 14:56, 3 June 2022
films on papermaking from mills, mid-20c: https://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/the-papermakers-tullis-russell-in-film/
RBS film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJPRV-V_WE
project with Ted Nelson's junk mail? https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail
Printed fragments, repurposed, from Lost Manuscripts project: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133975635@N05/sets/72157654047859828
/with/18555101090/
Preprint histories: https://www.prepressure.com/
Speculative Bibliography: https://ryancordell.org/research/speculative-bibliography
Digital resources collected by RSA: https://rsadigitalresources.hcommons.org/tag/books-printing/
Antiracist Printmaking: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qvyengs6kPRY_I1OFYaQcRBIoNXS2DcmloemJodSoFg/edit
Diversify Book History resources: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ICnolYXSFM1HHoD40LRWURbfodp46FTSqHFhS2myfCE/htmlview
History of printing for the blind
- Valentin Haüy's Essai sur l'Education des Aveugles, 1786 -- embossed and printed, pages glued together to make it seem more like a typical codex
- Proposed Alphabets for the Blind, 1836, from an 1832 contest: https://www.flickr.com/photos/perkinsarchive/albums/72157659520932380 -- important to preserve roman alphabet
- Boston line type, or Howe's line type
- History of France, 1837, first fully embossed book in Braille
- Moon type, developed by William Moon, of Brighton School for the Blind in England
- APH, American Printing House for the Blind
- New York Dot System, 8-point developed separately from Braille
- American Braille introduced around 1879