Scope and Contents As indicated in a 1985 exhibition catalogue sponsored by the British Arts Council, the idea for a new codex appears in the first notebook as part of the Central School teaching programme: like a Mexican codex in concertina form but 'applied to modern wrapping paper, one side only'. The notion lay dormant for many years but from 1972 its advances and vicissitudes are chronicled in the notebooks. Wright was working at that time on his article 'The Essential Book'. Peguy was the exemplary craftsman: for him 'a book meant a total commitment to social and spiritual truth. . . A book meant writing, editing, printing, proof correcting, publishing and even opening a bookshop in the Rue de la Sorbonne'- the making and the message were inseparable.In an article written in a 1991 issue of Eye magazine on Wright's work, the form of the codex is quite roughly made and free of grand summarising gestures. The chief subject is lunfardo, the slang of the vagrant people of Buenos Aires. This code...

Scope and Contents As indicated in a 1985 exhibition catalogue sponsored by the British Arts Council, the idea for a new codex appears in the first notebook as part of the Central School teaching programme: like a Mexican codex in concertina form but 'applied to modern wrapping paper, one side only'. The notion lay dormant for many years but from 1972 its advances and vicissitudes are chronicled in the notebooks. Wright was working at that time on his article 'The Essential Book'. Peguy was the exemplary craftsman: for him 'a book meant a total commitment to social and spiritual truth. . . . A book meant writing, editing, printing, proof correcting, publishing and even opening a bookshop in the Rue de la Sorbonne'- the making and the message were inseparable.In an article written in a 1991 issue of Eye magazine on Wright's work, the form of the codex - is quite roughly made and free of grand summarising gestures. The chief subject is lunfardo, the slang of the vagrant people of Buenos Aires. This...