​Democratizing Knowledge:
In Chambers's Encyclopaedia

I only had about 4 hours to spend at the National Library of Scotland. Their Special Collections Reading Room has a great view, the time...

I’m spending the next couple of days in Edinburgh. Today I was at the NMS looking at the W&R Chambers blocks with Alison and Tom Mole,...

I was in Southern California last week visiting my relatives. I also offered to write an exhibition review for SHARP on The US...

“By the second half of the nineteenth century, though American piracy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica continued, many publishers of...

I started 2015 by spending two days in Newcastle, the former home of Thomas Bewick (pronounced “Buick” as in the car), learning how to...

I can't imagine Christmas without a Christmas tree. In fact, they are so pervasive everywhere and so universilly associated with the...

I am going through the books and sorting wood block images into different categories. Sometimes this is difficult because I don't want to...

I found yet another cool online resource, the Graphics Atlas. It allows you to compare different processes for creating images, provides...

I've been looking at the data for my books and there seems to be a definte pattern with the increase in the use of tables in the 2nd...

Today I met the W&R Chambers woodblocks for the first time in person. They spoke to me. They said, “Hello, time to get your hands...