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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

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Sep 4 • 4 tweets • 4 min read

Doesn't the Text Go...
On the INSIDE?

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Didn't identify the text yet, but the binder identified herself!

#herbook

@EricaHnrksn

With help from @EricaHnrksn and @SLevelt, here's the 1821 sheet from Le Monde Universel! Note the columns, still visible in the binding...
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@EricaHnrksn

@EricaHnrksn @SLevelt Here's the other side of the book... I couldn't Google-Books the exact location of this one, but from the similarity of the columns and text, I bet it's not far off from the same volume!
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How about a trip to Ancient Rome instead? (Via the Renaissance, of course! This book's from 1532.) Pick a gate, any gate; there are 16, 1 per pizza-shaped slice, each with a monumental topping...
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Even the title page is channeling antique monument fonts... Note the crowned SPQR on the left-most crest, the St Peter Papal keys and headgear on the center one (actually Pope Clement the 7th's arms who died two years later in 1534), and a cardinal hat at right.
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