A small selection of drawings on endpapers.
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A small selection of drawings on endpapers.
Dog ear bunting (dog ears and bookbinding thread)
A drawing on an endpaper.
Clouds clouds Clouds
Clouds clouds
Clods Clods Clods Clods
A black & white image, of a small selection, of black pages from various editions of Tristram Shandy.
Overwritten words. A drawing on an endpaper.
Drawing on isometric graph paper.
A drawing on hotel paper based on a simple printer's orament found in an 18th century Methodist pamphlet.
A dog ear found in The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. 19, ace, 21.
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A found composition. From the pages of a 19th century Methodist book.
With pens and pencils.
98/99. Found in a copy of 'For A New Novel : essays on fiction' by Robbe-Grillet.
A study for a concertina structure on isometric graph paper.
A drawing made with abandoned pens and pencils, found on the shelves of libraries in and around Manchester.
A drawing on an endpaper using annotations found in a library copy of Russian Constructivism by Christina Lodder.
Parentheses drawing (number 15)
A remixed Bridget Riley collage using pages from Studio International (July-August 1971)
A drawing on an endpaper using pencils found on the shelves of libraries.
Ordered index cards.
C D F G H I J K L M O P Q R U V W X Y Z
Absent letters.
My mistake!
Ink Splash / splat. An example from a collection of ink stains in the sea found on maps in various libraries.
A book page, white on white (after Malevich)
Suggestive of. Spot on.
A drawing on an endpaper using a pen found on a library shelf.
Rubbings of book covers
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A drawing on an endpaper made with a pencil found on a library shelf.
That makes sense. I see these oily impressions quite a lot in 19th century books.