Author: James Gibbs
Pubblication date: London, 1736
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I chose the first image for its interesting arrangement of characters, and the second for the precision and accuracy of the drawing.
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What particularly struck me about the physical book, apart from the colour of the cover which is very similar to a painting, was its ‘roughness’, very different from the smooth cover of the books you see today.