
Thanks to things magazine, I have just learned about the illustrations of Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). Beautiful stuff.

Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, well, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author, most recently, of Original Sin: A Cultural History. He keeps an online commonplace book here.
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He also designed the jackets and other elements in the fantastic Everyman's Library series.
Thanks for that link!