Cultures of the Book

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

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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
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/perkinsarchive/albums/72157635886962895
• https://aphmuseum.org/exhibits/online-exhibit/aph-embossing-press-chronology/