Radosław Nowakowski Treatise on Pageography or A Question of LiBerature the second edition - revised, updated, enlarged ISBN: year:  2022 size: 20cm x 25cm covers: softbound (Japanese binding) + cardboard slipcase paper: 100g, white print: inkjet printer language: English open edition the first edition: 2002 / 2009 ISBN: 978-83-61946-08-3 the first version: 21x21cm, 17 numbered hardbound and 28 numbered softbound copies the second version: 27x21cm, softbound, copies dated, not numbered Long time ago one of the very first readers of one of my early books said to me: “You should write a commentary explaining why this book has been written and made in such a way”. Despite the expectations TREATISE is not a commentary to any of my (and not my) books. The best commentary to any work (a book or a piece of art) is this work itself - it explains itself most thoroughly. TREATISE is not a theory of liBerature, either. In fact I don’t know what it is and what it was to be. With no doubt it’s not a collection of instructions “how to make” and “how to judge”. It’s not a collection of demands, requirements, indications, regulations and commands. Most probably it’s a collection of possibilities - it prompts what a book could be like if one made the most of those possibilities. It tells about what is before (in front of) a book, in a book, and after (behind and beyond) a book. About a blank page, sign, word, phrase, paragraph, text, page, leaf, leaves, covers, book, books, library... None of the books I have made so far uses all the possibilities described in the TREATISE. As well as the possibilities not described. Nor any of the books I have seen and read so far. It’s wonderful. It’s great. It means there is so much left to be done and discovered. The TREATISE was written almost twenty years ago, or more than twenty books ago. That is why it had to be updated. As usually something has been revised, something has been added, something has been erased, something has been changed... Does it mean that in a dozen books the third updated edition will be released? Who knows...