Emma, this is an amazing site, with much relevance to artists books. In fact there is a strong diaristic element to some artists books, as we will see later in April. Your post reminds me that I wanted to tell you all about the fabulous exhibition of diaries I saw last week at the Morgan Library in New York. I'll put that info in a post to the group.
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A celebratory discussion from the American Antiquarian Society to mark the completion of the series, from "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" to "Print Culture in Postwar America", published in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.Through these publications and the AAS Program in the History of the Book, the Society is acknowledged as a leader in the emerging international field of book history. The United States series- from Codex to the Kindle- is a lively consideration of authorship, reading, and publishing in the development of American life and culture.
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