{"id":265,"date":"2009-01-30T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2010-12-27T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T02:51:18","slug":"a-designer%e2%80%99s-portfolio-16th-century-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/30\/a-designer%e2%80%99s-portfolio-16th-century-style\/","title":{"rendered":"A Designer\u2019s Portfolio, 16th Century-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A recent post at CR Blog<\/a> showcases The Macclesfield Alphabet Book, a 16-century pattern book, the precursor to our modern black-vinyl-and-plastic portfolio books.<\/p>\n

According to the Rare Book Review<\/a>, The British Library is trying to acquire this recently discovered manuscript. The purchase price is \u00a3600,000, partially because these pattern books are so very rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent post at CR Blog showcases The Macclesfield Alphabet Book, a 16-century pattern book, the precursor to our modern black-vinyl-and-plastic portfolio books. According to the Rare Book Review, The British Library is trying to acquire this recently discovered manuscript. The purchase price is \u00a3600,000, partially because these pattern books are so very rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-manuscripts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t