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Born
Bath, The United Kingdom
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History, Art, Nonfiction

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December 2016


Author of ‘Typographic Firsts.’ Founder of ILT blog.

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John Boardley I'm working on several books, although most of my energies are concentrated on “Remarkable Renaissance Books: from Petrarch to Shakespeare”, a history…moreI'm working on several books, although most of my energies are concentrated on “Remarkable Renaissance Books: from Petrarch to Shakespeare”, a history of the book from 1400–1600.
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Typographic Firsts
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Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera

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Dumb Ways to Die began as an Australian rail safety campaign back in 2012. I heard the viral jingle recently, and it got me to thinking about a particular kind of printed ephemera. From about 1530, London began to publish Bills of Mortality. By the close of the same century, these lists […]

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