Out To Lunch

librarycompany:
Benjamin Sands, Metamorphosis, or, A Transformation of Pictures (United States?, 1802). Manuscript copy by “A.A. Sept. 25th, 1802.”
Each of the five panels folds at the top and bottom to create three illustrations. This book form, called “metamorphosis,” was so popular that thirty-nine editions were printed in America before 1820. Other manuscript copies exist, but all copies are unique.
You can see this book in person in our current exhibition, The Living Book: New Perspectives on From and Function on display through January 5th, 2018.
(via heaveninawildflower)
1. merry-melody liked this
2. jealousoftheirjudgment reblogged this from muspeccoll
3. xultimatumx liked this
4. lodisenso liked this
5. vitairrequieta reblogged this from librarycompany
6. qnoje reblogged this from sinopupil
7. julionline-blog1 liked this
8. gosvinta added this GIF to a post
9. intospace890 liked this
10. lesleyannemcleod reblogged this from muspeccoll
11. unmuyoas liked this
12. assistantxxx liked this
13. necromancybilly reblogged this from librarycompany
14. magicuddle liked this
15. ecka liked this
16. elquenosale reblogged this from librarycompany
17. pararespirar reblogged this from librarycompany
18. livrodereferencias liked this
19. theivorypenguin liked this
20. kelsosmithh reblogged this from librarycompany
21. absorberlibrorumaeternum liked this
22. xhasas-blog liked this
23. niknachos liked this
24. mypinholepinups liked this
25. katvanga liked this
26. angelicarj-blog1 liked this
27. treechetiri-blog-2018 liked this
28. wherearewedamfino reblogged this from librarycompany
29. knkix-blog liked this
30. angrymakerlighti8 liked this
31. golden-members-blog liked this
32. r-m-stuffthatilike reblogged this from librarycompany
33. nedolutik-blog liked this
34. mydonkeyfeet reblogged this from anotherconservator
35. librarycompany posted this
36. Show more notesLoading...