ENGL 1260W-04 - Introduction to Literature and Cultural Analysis: Criminal Subjects - Adams: Sources Used in Class

This book was made by slitting the bellows of an unrepairable vintage Hohner student accordion to create an accordion book structure. The images and text panels were then inserted into the bellows to create the pages. The text is a history of the accordion paired with a history of the accordion book.

Vanderbilt University Special Collections copy sent to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) for conservation in 2016. Treatments performed included: "the volume was collated and disbound. Residual paper and adhesive from the flyleaves and previous paper repairs were removed using local applications of moisture. Tears were mended and folds guarded where necessary with japanese kozo paper and gelatin. Endsheets of burnished handmade paper with linen hinges were added, and a loose guard of handmade paper was folded around the spine of each gathering. The volume was sewn on linen cords with linen thread using a herringbone stitch. Back-bead endbands were sewn with linen thread. The volume was bound in full calf leather using a laced-in structure. A four-flap wrapper was constructed for the previous binding and flyleaves using Bristol. The volume and previous binding were housed in a custom drop-spine box. Written and photographic treatment documentation was provided"--NEDCC documentation papers, received November 2016.

An artists' book. Removable accordion fold format volume held to ukulele binding structure by brass tabs. Housed in an old ukulele case.
Text consists of an illustrated time line of the ukulele, from 1879 to the 1990s.

An artist's book in an octagonal shape. Bound in linen over board with a round panel containing title and vignettes inset on front cover. Velcro closure. Hand-stitched two-leaf signatures.

"Notions is dedicated to the 146 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory workers, 112 Tazreen Fashions factory workers, and thousands of other garment workers who have perished in preventable workplace disasters.

An artist's book. Consists of 6 unbound pages, 3 of which contain black and white monoprints made from photographs the artist took of her mother's garden. In a lace paper folder with a folded paper signature laid in. Lace folio sits in a custom pocket on right side of a larger folio made of black, paper-covered boards with a cloth spine and ribbon enclosure. Copies signed and numbered by the artist.

A miniature artist's book with a single panel of illustrations rolled up around one of two wooden dowel rods. The rods can be turned to reveal sections of the illustration panel at a time. The scroll is built into a clamshell-box like structure covered with map paper on the exterior covers. A single cutout image of an insect appears on the front.
Limited edition of 100 copies.

A one-of-a-kind artist's book. Consists of a series of 8 miniature books (each measuring 12 mm) in different colors and a paintbrush wrapped in sheet music. The books fit into the small tin squares that once held watercolor paint, and upon removing a book, its title is revealed in cut-out letters at the bottom of each square. Each of the books focuses on a song that includes the name of a color. Colors included are: white, yellow, brown, orange, red, purple, blue, and green. Miniature books and paintbrush are held in a found watercolor paintbox covered in paper and musical notes cut out from sheet music. Title and publication information on panel on bottom of box.

Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex, Printed by me William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Finished on the 8th day of May, 1896. Besides Burne-Jones eighty-seven pictures, it contains a full-page woodcut title, fourteen large borders, eighteen borders or frames for the pictures, and twenty-six large initial words. All of these, besides the ornamental initial letters large and small, were designed by William Morris.