Illuminated manuscripts and 15th century printing press.
Photographs of British Algae, Anna Atkins, 1843-53
Plates from Parr, Martin, and Gerry Badger. The Photobook: A History. Vol. 1. 2 vols: Phaidon Press, 2004.
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1876
Edwardian period scrapbook from Upstate New York, Collection of Chris Burnett
Words in Liberty, Marinetti, c. 1913
Poster for Dziga Vertov film, c. 1924
Anthology on Brion Gysion
Cut up by Brion Gysion/W. S. Burroughs, 1960s
Bowles, Jerry G., and Tony Russell, eds. This Book Is a Movie - an Exhibition of Language Art and Visual Poetry. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1971.
Herron, Gaylord Oscar. Vagabond. Tulsa, Okla.: Penumbra Project, 1975.
Illustration showing revolutionary potential of HyperCard
Victor Burgin, c. 1990
Useful Photography, Hans Aarsman
Recently published artists' magazines
Ristelhueber, Sophie. Sophie Ristelhueber: Details of the World. Boston: MFA Publications, 2001.
Byrne, David. Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information. Steidl Verlag, 2003.
Aitken, Doug, and Dean Kuipers. I Am a Bullet: Scenes from an Accelerating Culture. New York: Crown Publishers, 2000.
Aitken, Doug. A-Z Book (Fractals). Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003.
Artists' Book at VSW
Amerika, Mark. Meta/Data: A Digital Poetics. Leonardo Books. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.
Sinclair, Iain, and Dave McKean. London Orbital. London: Granta Press, 2002.