John M. Carrera meticulously restored thousands of engravings from the pages of 19th-century Webster’s dictionaries, creating a work as valuable for it’s literal reconstruction of history as for his dedicated resurrection of forgotten bookmaking processes.

From Drawn.ca:

‘In his introduction to the book, Carrrera suggests that the very juxtapositions of the illustrations tell a story:

“The conceptual underpinning is that this book can act as a springboard for individual creativity. It was printed with a belief that the human compulsion to find meaning would lead readers to create stories that explain whole pages and perhaps even inspire some to derive unifying threads that might, in a Joycean fashion, enable a narration of the entire book.”’