The Typewriter Repairman (part 2)

The Library of Lost Books - THE FINAL PART!

 ̶P̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶V̶I̶I̶I̶ THE FINAL PART, IT'S FIIINISHED!

FIN

Please keep up to date with The Library of Lost Books, also on Facebook and Twitter, where you can see lots of lovely pictures of the rest of the books as well as more information on the project. All the books will be exhibited at the Library of Birmingham in November this year, but keep an eye out for them popping up elsewhere before then.

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The Library of Lost Books - Part III (and IV, V, VI, probably VII too)

I have been dragging this out for some reason (maybe I secretly don't want to send it back?) but here is, finally, an update of what I have been doing for the past few months (all right, 
5 months...) IT'S NEARLY FINISHED!

First off, I took apart (!) the lovely book

then I cut down the cover to lantern-slide size (3¼in x 3¼in);

next was the very long process of matching up the original illustrations with 
captions taken from all the books involving the Glass family;

...pages;

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The Library of Lost Books at The Seventh Manchester Artists' Book Fair October 2012

 

Where I purchased one the the best things I've seen ever; a little notebook with a hand-knitted Penguin Classics-style cover. This treasure was made by Cally Barker, she has made a whole collection of these, with other such titles as 'Short Stories', 'Work of Fiction' and 'A Classic Novel'. I picked 'A Book of Days' as it was the only one at her stall that she'd used slightly different shades of orange wool to give it a dog-eared look.



November brought The Library of Lost Books Artists' Meetup at The LOLB HQ in Birmingham. I arrived a little late but still got to see a lot of the lovely returned books and speak to some of the other artists. Not to mention spend some time with the spectacular host and and curator/creator of the Project, Susan Kruse!

 

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putting the illustrations, typewritten captions and book together:

 
 

I managed to acquire an original lantern-slide which is really lovely.

I then had some glass cut to lantern-slide size so I can make my own lantern slides. The first one I don't think would work properly if used in a Lanterna Magica, but I quite liked how specimen-like it felt. Two more lantern-slides are in progress.

Another long process was alphabetising all the Proper Nouns in the Glass Family books. 
I am now in the process of typing these out...

They will then be cut to lantern-slide sized index cards 

to be sorted into these lantern-slide sized tabbed guides;

TBC (SOON)