Age of Print #22, Aviation #16

Leaflet dropped from balloon flight sponsored by the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 18, 1887)

War #13, Age of Print #21

Founders' Promissory Notes #2, Age of Print #20

The Automobile #19, Titles Without Context #10, Age of Print #19

The Horseless Age

(1895-1918)

Cinema #47, Age of Print #18

Expressive esoterica: Film Culture 28, featuring Andrew Sarris' "American Directors" rankings and filmography, later revised into book form as American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968. (1963)

Apocalypse #22, Manhattan #43, Aviation #14, Cinema #46, Architecture #41, Age of Print #17

Parker Tyler, The Shadow of an Airplane Climbs the Empire State Building: A World Theory of Film (1972)

Age of Print #16

The Novels of Dashiell Hammett, Alfred A. Knopf, publishers (1965)

Age of Print #14

Front and back covers of first American edition of The Life of Alfred Nobel. (1929)

Annals of Typography #1, Age of Print #14

Line three enlarged:


John Donne, fragment of “The Flea” (c. 1610)

The long “s” (ſ) gives the line “Me it suck’d first, and now sucks thee” two possible readings.

Please notify William Empson.

Page from Poems on Several Occasions: Written by the Reverend John Donne, ... With Elegies on the Author’s Death. To this Edition is Added, Some Account of the Life of the Author
By John Donne
Published by printed for J. Tonson, and sold by W. Taylor. (1719)

Age of Print #13, Architecture #38

Cover of first edition of Louis Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats on Architecture, Education and Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Scarab Fraternity Press, 1934)

Age of Print #12, Cinema #41

Cover to Dutton edition of Andrew Sarris's American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 (1969)

Age of Print #11, Food #13, The Animal Kingdom #13

Twenty-First Annual Capital Bicycle Club Banquet dinner menu. (February 3, 1900)

Age of Print #10

Advertisement for the book Many a Monster in the New York Times (March 25, 1948)

Alcohol #10, Age of Print #9

Dust jacket to later edition of The Savoy Cocktail Book, by Harry Craddock. The full title of the original was The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and greatly appreciated in the year of grace 1930, with sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them, together with subtle Observations upon Wines and their special occasions.

Scenes from a Life #18, Age of Print #8, The Automobile #16

The Los Angeles Times reports the death of Ernie Kovacs (January 13, 1962)

Age of Print #7, Architecture #29

Frontispiece, Pioneers of the Modern Movement (Faber & Faber, 1936)

Age of Print #6, Annals of Pseudoscience #1

American Phrenological Journal (Published New York City, 1838-1869)

The Animal Kingdom #11, Architecture #34, Age of Print #5

From Rudiments of Architecture and Building, edited by John Bullock (1865)
Illustration to Book III, Chapter IV, "Imitation of Nature and Models"

Archaeology of Madison Avenue #3, Age of Print #4, Triumph of the Machine #4, Mathematics #3

IBM advertisement (1960)

The Age of Print #3