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title: "The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design In Canada"
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# The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design In Canada

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CCSP ISBN 978-0-9738727-2-9

$60.00 hardcover

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From the Raincoast Books newsletter:

Quote: Robert Bringhurst takes us on another of his walking tours, this time through the bramble of English and French-Canadian books and book design, from the mid-18th Century to the present day. Along the way, he discovers a true “image trove” of identity, culture and history.

And he does what no other work on books and publications does: He creates a truly national survey of Canadian books by bringing Canada’s long history of Aboriginal story-telling into a context of “book”. It is a context that goes into the depths of our prehistory, far beyond the printed page.

I am a big fan of Bringhurst and a fan of book design. *Penguin by Design* by Philip Baines was a favourite read a couple of years ago.