Postponed from 2010, this seminar will consider the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practice of customizing books with images and texts cut from other sources, with two of the leading experts in the field:

Dr Luisa Cale (Birkbeck): ‘Reading and Cutting through the Page: William Blake and the extra-illustrated book’

Dr Lucy Peltz (National Portrait Gallery): ‘Facing the Text: the origins and rise of extra-illustration c.1770-1840’

Extra-illustrated materials from the UL’s collections will be on display.

Friday 28 January 5 pm – Morison Room – University Library

All welcome. To register for the seminar, please email Mina Gorji (mg473@cam.ac.uk).

Download a poster here.