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Drafts of history: the world in newspapers on a single day Edited by Vaibhav Singh
With an introduction by Amelia Bonea
2023
This book offers a visual catalogue of over 200 newspapers from around the world, largely of and around a single day, 10 March 1888. The collection presents a unique snapshot of the world in newspapers by documenting a nineteenth-century endeavour to create an international archive of the press. Drafts of history not only offers a rare glimpse of the visual design and everyday readerly contexts of a bygone era, but it is also a timely invitation to reflect on collecting and exhibiting a centuries-old print medium in the age of digital media. [Read more …]

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Contextual Alternate Journal of Communication, Technology, Design, and History
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Our annual journal brings together essays critically examining print in diverse contexts of production and communication. With richly illustrated essays, ranging over material, textual, and visual cultures of Asia, it aims to make new contributions to our understanding of the diverse facets and intersections of publishing, technology, design, and history.
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Contextual Alternate Journal of Communication, Technology, Design, and History
2021
Essays in this volume address missionary print in nineteenth-century rural India, popular woodblock print and lithography in modern China, the beginnings of photocomposition for Indian scripts, the Japanese school of etchers, and the early years of British printing in Ceylon. Contributions by Ulrike Stark, James A. Flath, Vaibhav Singh, Ad Stijnman, and Graham Shaw. [See details …]

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2024
This book consolidates over three decades of research by one of the foremost historians and bibliographers of South Asian printing. With thirty newly revised and updated essays, Impressions of the past argues for rigorous groundwork in book history and typographic research for various languages and scripts of the Indian subcontinent. Profusely illustrated with specimens of early imprints, the volume is not only a summation of Graham Shaw’s long engagement with research in the field, it also constitutes a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the history of South Asian print cultures. [Read more …]

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