Build a Book

1. Watch this short video on the printing press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN_KhB9SjVs

In the video, on this small scale-model printing press, the curator prints a single page of text on a small sheet of paper. But as we discussed, early modern printers used very large sheets of paper and printed multiple pages at once, folding them later to create books.

1. Fold an 8-page “quarto” book by hand. Number the pages, unfold them, and draw or write a short book so that when you fold it back up everything is in the right order.

2. Now let’s scale up by trying this with two different kinds of books: a quarto and a folio. Complete Exercise 1 of the DIY First Folio and DIY Quarto.