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Elizabeth Cobbold — The Monitory Lizard — Notebook
Elizabeth Cobbold — The Monitory Lizard — Notebook
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The document, understood — then kept in use.
The document
A poet’s papercut. Each February, Elizabeth Cobbold scissored some eighty valentines by hand — every one inscribed with a verse she had written. Here a lizard walks across the poem.
The notebook
The sheet is the cover; the spine carries the title. Inside, eleven pages of archival introduction — where the document comes from, who made it, how it was made, and what it left behind — and then the book gets out of the way: 106 pages to write in, 86 ruled and 20 dot grid.
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About the maker
Elizabeth Cobbold · London, 1767 – Ipswich, 1824. She made the valentine an art of its own.
Specifications
- A5 · 148 × 210 mm
- Perfect-bound, printed spine
- 120 pages — 11 archival + 106 to write in (86 ruled, 20 dot grid)
- 100 gsm uncoated paper
- Printed on demand in the USA
Elizabeth Cobbold · The Monitory Lizard, cut-paper valentine · c. 1823 · The New York Public Library · Pforzheimer Collection · Image 58792976 · Public domain
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