Ephemera of the Month: An Introduction to Bookbinders’ Tickets
Few things as brazenly flout their etymological origins as the idea of collected ‘ephemera.’ In Greek, ephemera lasts only a day, and the word was often specifically used in reference to short-lived creatures, like mayflies. Printed ephemera, too, was meant to be transient–one-off or single-use items that were expected to