Sympathy for the (printer's) devil!
Jun. 15th, 2006 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomFirst day of the Letterpress Intensive, and I think I'm going to like this. But after three tries at setting a mere two lines of type without error, I have a great deal more sympathy for typos, at least in hand-set press. (People who use computers, etc., have no excuse.) We are going to do a class project, each of us choosing a quotation that has meaning for us (I'm going to use my favorite quotation over there on the side). I am talking to the instructor about printing a story of my great-aunt's. She told us some tall tales when we were kids, and a few years ago we found that she had written them out. Ever since, I've been thinking of doing a book with them for my sisters, but I wasn't sure how I'd do the text. It will probably be too much to set all of them, so I'm thinking, if Stacey (my instructor, not my sister of the same name) thinks it will work, to set one of them as a broadside. And maybe a Xerox transfer image of my great-aunt on the page. I have some luscious Italian paper that my younger sister bought me a few years ago and that I have been saving for something special. This may be it. We'll see.
Last night, the Chicago Hand Bookbinders meeting was at the Special Collections of the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library. I love these meetings at Special Collections departments. The librarians love showing off their good stuff to an appreciative audience, and often (as was the case yesterday) we can actually touch and hold these wonderful books. The selection ranged from medieval manuscripts through 19th-century fine bindings up to contemporary artists' books. I got to hold a Kelmscott edition of the Poems of William Shakespeare and there were a couple of marvelous pop-up books - Carol Barton's Instructions for Assembly and Sjoerd Hofstra's Elements of Geometry by Euclid were the best. I marveled as always at how illuminated manuscripts from the 15th-century still retain their vivid and luminous colors, the gold still raised and shiny, the blue as brilliant as the day the lapis was ground. But my absolute favorite offering was a copy of the Brut Chronicle, dating to 1445, and still tightly sewn to its boards. The flyleaves were filled with "doodles", such as stick figure drawings and musical notations, and it appeared that the same bit of text was copied in different hands. Very intriguing!
We had a couple of new members last night, and I think they enjoyed their introduction to CHB!
Yet another book journaled (and on its way to GreedyReader just as soon as I get to the P.O.)!
#41
Heloise & Abelard: a Twelfth-Century Love Story
Last night, the Chicago Hand Bookbinders meeting was at the Special Collections of the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library. I love these meetings at Special Collections departments. The librarians love showing off their good stuff to an appreciative audience, and often (as was the case yesterday) we can actually touch and hold these wonderful books. The selection ranged from medieval manuscripts through 19th-century fine bindings up to contemporary artists' books. I got to hold a Kelmscott edition of the Poems of William Shakespeare and there were a couple of marvelous pop-up books - Carol Barton's Instructions for Assembly and Sjoerd Hofstra's Elements of Geometry by Euclid were the best. I marveled as always at how illuminated manuscripts from the 15th-century still retain their vivid and luminous colors, the gold still raised and shiny, the blue as brilliant as the day the lapis was ground. But my absolute favorite offering was a copy of the Brut Chronicle, dating to 1445, and still tightly sewn to its boards. The flyleaves were filled with "doodles", such as stick figure drawings and musical notations, and it appeared that the same bit of text was copied in different hands. Very intriguing!
We had a couple of new members last night, and I think they enjoyed their introduction to CHB!
Yet another book journaled (and on its way to GreedyReader just as soon as I get to the P.O.)!
#41
Heloise & Abelard: a Twelfth-Century Love Story
