On Friday 21 May at 5pm in the Morison Room, University Library there will be a CMT seminar on extra-illustration. Dr Luisa Cale and Dr Lucy Peltz will explore the origins and rise of extra-illustration and examine some important examples of this creative practice. Extra-illustrated materials from the UL’s collections will be available for inspection.

• 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

The seminar coincides with the final week of the Folger Library’s exhibition of extra-illustration, ‘Extending the Book’:

• http://www.folger.edu/Content/Whats-On/Folger-Exhibitions/On-Exhibit-Extending-the-Book/Extending-the-Book.cfm
• http://titania.folger.edu/ExtraIllustratedBooks/

If you’d like to attend the seminar, please email Mina Gorji (mg473@cam.ac.uk).