On Paper

Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Newberry Library

"Game Kits: Reproducing Interactive Blockbooks and Movable Incunables"

A surprising number of fifteenth-century prints and books with game-like moving parts survive, more or less intact. This talk will discuss the unusual printing history of a group of these calendars, fortune-telling games, and optical toys that would be reproduced along with their movable dials in early twentieth-century Germany.

Saturday, October 29, 2022
University of Southern California
3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA
Leavey Library (LVL 13)
9:30 am - 11:30 am