Saturday, August 1, 2026

MEMESCAPESaturday edition

Endpapers

Marbled paper was never decoration. It was a way of making a book you could not quietly correct, which is the same problem this publication has been solving all week.

Stone and Shell

Spanish Wave

Bouquet

Feathered Spine

Four plates for the first of August, and four patterns rather than four settings of one: overlapping stones, a nonpareil waved across the comb, a fine ground broken into rosettes, and a comb dragged to one side the way an endpaper feathers at the spine.Marbled for this edition · printed nowhere else

The essay

The bound edition