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If you have received more than one copy of this, please forgive the cross-posting. The catalog of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings 1872-1929 now has 365 entries, and 155 images are online. The gallery installation views are at http://minsky.com/gallery.htm The earlier (incomplete) version of the checklist with about 250 partial entries and 30 images is at http://minsky.com/pub-dec-other.htm The printed book is on schedule for 2006 publication in a Deluxe Edition, a Limited Edition, and a CD-ROM. Pre-publication discount subscription information is at http://minsky.com/orderform-subscription1.htm If the current rate of subscriber interest continues, the Limited Edition may be sold out before publication. Please note that the current pricing expires this Saturday, April 30, and a price increase takes effect May 1. While the book is in preparation, subscribers have passcode access to the website with the complete checklist and all the images, as well as the illustrated essays as they are written. Last week the section on book covers depicting motor cars before 1911 became available. Currently I am working on two sections, one on the Asian influence, and one on the influence of Will Bradley's radical 1894 design for _In Russet and Silver_. That design utilized flat graphic images and figure/ground relationships to establish depth of field in picture planes, while retaining a naturalistic space in abstraction. It also used the spine as a visual device for transforming identical front and back covers into the illusion of a single continuous picture. Several of the checklist titles have disappeared from the online listings during the last few weeks, and better copies of some others have become more expensive, so perhaps the collectors, dealers, curators and librarians who have subscribed are finding the online catalog useful. I might have to write something about the economics of this, as I tried to get another copy of one title today that was $20 last month and could not find one offered in as good condition for under $125! -- Richard http://minsky.com __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]