In Against Decorum, Michael Hampton conveys a rich, centuries-long culture of book damage. Against Decorum is an exploration of the many ways in which the physical integrity of the printed codex is put under strain. A connoisseur of the frayed, the scuffed, and the torn, Hampton describes 'a new era of bibliographic unorthodoxy' in which books are fallen things. To these contemporary works Hampton brings a scalpel and excises a language of time-worn...
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