No. 150 Supplement November 2008

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About the Cover

In 2006 photographer Kyla Mallett’s exhibition “Marginalia” assembled images of annotations written into Vancouver Public Library books, exploring the annotators’ motivations and the responses they provoke. The cover image was used in a banner triptych promoting the exhibition. The concept of marginalia as a focus for collecting is explored in this issue’s Modern Firsts column.

About the Supplement

This supplement accompanies the fall double issue of Amphora, which also happens to be the journal’s 150th publication. To mark this momentous occasion, the issue is devoted entirely to chronicling in full colour the work of Vancouver’s first commercial printer, Robert Mathison. The material reproduced and the accompanying essays come from bookseller Stephen Lunsford and collector John Keenlyside, both of whom have spent several decades exploring Mathison’s work and what it tells us about a particularly vibrant time in Vancouver’s history.

Supplement [full issue]

Table of Contents from the Supplement is listed below.

Notes

The editor is gone; Long live the editor! By Rollin Milroy.

Bookselling

The implications of Amazon’s purchase of AbeBooks.
By Michael Lieberman.

Modern Firsts

Arguments for and against marginalia. By Paul Whitney.

Review

Robin Kinross’s Hyphen Press and a new book on microtypography by Jost Hochuli

Limited Availability

New books from the edges and (un)dead centre of Canada

News

A rare opening at ubc. By Katherine Kalsbeek.

Collector’s Corner

Searching high and low (brow). By Richard Coxford.