Books On Books Collection - Inscription 4

Inscription: The Journal of Material Text, Issue 4 on Touch Simon Morris, Gill Partington and Adam Smyth (eds.) Cased perfect bound paperback, printed paper cover. 313 x 313 mm. 120 pages. ISSN: 2634-7210. Acquired from Information as Material, 29 November 2023. Photos: Books On Books Collection. Different readers will come to different conclusions on whether Inscription #4 dedicated to the…

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Claire Battershill, "Brothers", from Circus

Since 1917, Virginia, with her husband Leonard, had been co-founder, publisher, and editor at the Hogarth Press. The independent publisher was part of a vast and proliferating network of publishing houses in the interwar years bent on remaking the book production landscape. The woman who would become one of the world's most famous modern novelists—a public intellectual whose essay A Room of One's Own (1929) helped found contemporary feminist literary criticism—credited 'a press of her own' with having started it all. The press would become both a touchstone for her textual innovations and a talisman she would brandish for future writers, as the increasingly affordable and accessible technologies of print created the intellectual freedom essential to a functioning democracy.

Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project, by Claire Battershill, Helen Southworth, Alice Stavely, Michael Widner, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, and Nicola Wilson

Pretty great news for former Dragnet contributor AND Dragnet editor Andrew's sis, she's gettin her book published! Go to Quill & Quire to read all about it, along with a list of her accomplishments, which may make you feel rather unaccomplished. 

From its origin in 1917 as a small hand-operated printing press perched on the dining-room table where the Woolfs handset, inked, machined, and sewed the book jackets of their own works, the Hogarth Press grew to become not just Virginia Woolf's primary publisher, but also the imprint of many pioneering twentieth-century writers including T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Sigmund Freud, Nancy Cunard, William Plomer, Henry Green, and Laurens Van der Post.

Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project, by Claire Battershill, Helen Southworth, Alice Stavely, Michael Widner, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, and Nicola Wilson