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CODE(X)+1 MONOGRAPH SERIES 2008-9
Three volumes.

- Berkeley, California : CODEX Foundation 2008 - 5.5 x 7.75 inches - paperback - 16; 24; 24 pages - Order Nr. 102906 - Price: $ 100.00 View Excerpt (PDF)

The monograph series CODE(X)+1 is devoted to the subject of book and print culture with editorial direction by the Codex Publications Advisory Board. This set contains the first three in the series: Why There Are Pages and Why They Must Turn by Robert Bringhurst, Art: Definition Five (And Other Writings) by Peter Rutledge Koch, and Each New Book by Alan Loney.

The book is a durable artifact in which author, reader, and the artisans who make and preserve them enter into ordered and potentially pleasurable relationships. A printed book is enhanced by the materials and processes with which it is made. The book in the era of digital reproduction is an object of pleasure as well as a container of information. To consult information relieved of the pleasures of turning a page, smelling ink, or admiring the binding, we can rely on the internet. The book as ark of deposit requires neither electricity nor fossil fuel to either read or maintain. The book as an object dwells at the intersections of writing and art, philosophy and poetics, science and scholarship. The structure of a book is a sculpture for reading. The meaning is transmitted and the book remains. CODE(X)+1 Monographs celebrate the culture of the book.

This series was printed in an edition of 500 copies on a Heidelberg cylinder press by Peter Koch. The covers were printed from antique wood and metal types in the Koch collection.

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