Booktryst highlights an interesting selection of antiquarian anatomy books.
From the piece...
Dating back to the late 1500's, these movable books were "originally designed as instructional tools." Flap books mirrored the elements of human dissection, and gave early physicians a means to study the intricacies of the human body layer by layer. According to co-curator Valeria Finucci, "Flap books illustrate bodies immersed in the intellectual, aesthetic, technological, philosophical, gendered, even religious culture of the time in which they were produced...In the interchange between the doctor/anatomist and the illustrator/technician, the body parts that emerge acquire a life, and a beauty, of their own."
1 comment:
I prefer board books as they are practical for babies and toddlers. I do buy non board books as well but these are only if they are really good buys are classics that I feel I really have to own. I store these books away, they are not in the regular stash of books that we rotate around the house as they are usually have longer text and deeper messages that do not capture the attention of my tot. I also like books printed on good quality paper which are bound well.
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