Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts
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An ongoing work, David Gatten's Secret History cycle "probes the relationship between printed words and images, philosophical ideas, historical records, and biography." Currently, parts I-V have been released: Secret history of the Dividing Line, The Great Art of Knowing, Moxon's Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-works applied to the Art of Printing, The Enjoyment of Reading (Lost and Found) and What Places of Heaven, What Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, the General Accidents of the World.
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1999-01-01
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