Type Punch Matrix

Major Sylvia Plath Collection Coming to New York Antiquarian Book Fair Type Punch Matrix will feature more than two dozen items from the life and career of Sylvia Plath at the 64th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair, April 4 - 7 at the Park Avenue Armory.

The 1971 first edition jacket cover art of HAROLD AND MAUDE plays with the concept of the two characters’ different personalities via typography!

One of the great historical sources about medieval England: the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. First compiled in the 9th century in Old English, this 1823 publication was the first with the complete text translated into modern English. If you want to learn about Alfred the Great and the Vikings, this one’s for you!

Early photography, 1854: this is the first edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph. The book is John C. Warren’s REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks. The Mesozoic and the modern together in a single book!