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Exhibition was curated by Piotr Rypson. All of the shaped poems are Pre-Mallarme and are of German, Latin, and Greek origin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Nazerenko contibutes a lengthy introductory essay on the history of concrete and visual poetry with emphasis on Ukrainian poets entitled "Calligraphic Scratches, Squiggles and Shaped Texts: The Evolution of Ukrainian Visual Literature." A great deal of research for this book was carried out in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition of illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the 13th to the 16th century was presented at Ursus Rare Books by Dr. Jorn Gunther, antiquarian book dealer in Hamburg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition from the collection of William Helfand at the Grolier Club. It traces the history of the "frequently excessive & flamboyant seller" or quackery and the marketing of proprietory medicines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book served as the catalogue at the Grolier Club exhibition in New York but was published one year before the exhibition. The Sackner Archive lent two works to the exhibition.tSTEP inside design, March/April 2003 review: Lately I've been indulging in books of unusual visual richness, and for me the most exhilarating illustrated book of the season is Jessica Helfand's Reinventing the Wheel. Helfand is a designer, a scholar, and as the book shows in spades a passionate collector of ephemera. The ephemera in question here are those odd wheel charts widely used from the 1920s to 1960s for purposes as diverse as telling fortunes, managing diets, identifying birds, spotting aircraft, charting the stars, and learning French grammar (remember the Cuthbertson Verb Wheel?). Helfand's gorgeously designed book reproduces more than a hundred of these volvelles, as hey're technically known, traces their history back to early astronomy indeed to the properties of the circle itself as a...

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Exhibition was curated by Anne Anninger. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This paper is a well researched survey of concrete and visual poetry done by an undergraduate student. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes an inscription about the book collecting habits of the Sackners inside front cover by Susan Barron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the true second edition of a superbly illustrated catalogue that encompasses ancient to contemporary international visual/verbal content. This book includes a translucent paper page by Carlfriedrich Clausen entitled "Vibrationstext" that consists of micrographic Hebrew texts printed recto-verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Curated by Carol Barton and Diane Shaw. For this exhibition "a select group of nationally recognized book artists was invited to create original works of art inspired by" volumes from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Chapter 2 entitled "Figured Poetry" describes ancient shaped poetry and Includes analyses of the poems of the 17th century English poets such as George Herbert who composed the shaped poem, Easter Wings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an annotated biography from a friend who is a book collector of novels that were published as serial parts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The hard cover book is the Hebrew typographical Biblical book, "Song of Songs." Pudwinski created a new Hebrew typeface for the lyrical love poems that he named Shir. Beck illustrated the text with linocut illustrations. The soft cover book is a translation of the Hebrew text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This reproduction of an ancient image was printed in Monks Pond. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this lecture, de Hamel describe the life of Cockerell, an outstanding collector and dealer of ancient manuscripts and incunabula through the first half of the 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Juan Catamuel's (1606-1682) father was an aristocratic engineer from Luxembourg, his mother was of noble birth too and from Bohemia; they lived in Madrid. Caramuel was interested in mathematics and astronomy right from his childhood. In 1625, Caramuel entered the monastery of the Cistercian order La Espina, Diocese Palencia, Spain, and then made a brilliant career in the Church, as genius (sometimes Spanish Leibniz) and as famous preacher. Caramuel was befriended with the Jesuit Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658). He is comparable to the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680).At frst Caramuel received the usual special education at a College. He studied Theology at the University of Alacala de Henares nearby Madrid, where he finished with the Magister Artium. Then he continued his studies at the University of Salamanca and from 1632 onwards at the University of Leuven, where he was a promotor of the Spanish interests and helped to defend the city against the French...

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Describes the discovery by two high school students of mouse-shaped poems within Lewis Carroll's the classic "mouse's tail poem" of Alice in Wonderland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.