The text was written on translucent paper such that the black ink writings appear like mirror writings owing to transmission through the translucency of the paper. Each page has an illumination in red ink of a single capital letter, S C H R I F T. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The blocks of text are painted for the most part black with the margins left intact. In some instances, grays are used so that the printed text is allowed to shine through. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

This catalogue has the appearance of an Assembling magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages of this book have neatly cut, black and white images and texts found in magazines and newspapers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages consist of rubberstampings and images cut to page size from magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A French novel has been placed on a slanted base covered with finely inked cross hatched markings. The pages are folded, woven and sewn so that it is impossible to read the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The twenty-four screenprints alternate with twenty-four pages of Hebrew text that are printed randomly on translucent mat flic (artist's term for a type of plastic) in varyied dimensional typefaces. The images are abstract, organic and colored surrealistic forms which interplay with texts on each set of pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The hard cover book includes 15 hieroglyphic drawings uilizing Scherstjanoi's own alphabet that is explained in the book. The poem-drawings are sound poems. Each card depicts a single "letter" of the alphabet. The calligraphy resembles that of Albrecht Genin and Werner Hartmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book presents biographies of extraordinary women who lived in the Middle ages. The borders on each page are modified from a 15ht centure Book of Hours and the binding resembles a medieval book. The text was hand printed by the typography class at Scripps College. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book presents images and poetry written by thirteen students in the Scripps College typography class dealing with the theme of time of the day. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This chapbook is a collaborative class project which describes the origins of the Scripps College Press. It is based on the talk delivered by Judy Harvey Sahak in 1992 at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Press. It was edited and arranged by the typography class consisting of Reika Go, Natalie Hamner and Penelope Willard with the assistance of Professor Kitty Maryatt. The contents consist of the correspondence between Frederic W. Goudy, designer of Scripps College Old Style, and Dorothy Drake, college librarian. Goudy wrote to the class in 1939 that Dorothy Drake "will present craft & craftsmanship in a manner to inspire you for good books & for the details of their making." Included with several handwritten letters from Goudy to Drake are drawings of letter designs and a portrait. The text of the book was printed in Scripps College Old Style from the original matrices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a collaboration between twelve woman at Scripps College each of whom contributed a chapter that consisted of a travel diary presented either in prose or verse and illustrated with maps and views. The gray chamois book binding is hinged with a snap to enclose the entire book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The aim of this book project was to focus on intuition and music. The participants were asked to choose music that was important to them and to create imagery as they listened to the music, and then to compose words to enhance the imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.