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Nothing like a Doves Binding. Here’s our copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays, published by the Doves Press in 1906, our copy being one of 25 printed on vellum, and here you can see the quires separated by vellum gutter guards, a beautiful thing in itself...
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It’s always a good day to look at great typography, and the John Wilson Special Collections has some of the best. Here’s a close look at three opening sections in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays published by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson in 1906 by his Doves Press. Our copy is one of 25 printed on vellum and has these exquisite red capitals, gorgeous ligatures (ct, for example), and even wonderful ampersands, semi-colons, and periods...
We find it fascinating that Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922)--the proprietor of the esteemed Doves Press, a fine press known for its beautiful typography, having great clarity and grace (see top, a detail of a leaf on vellum from the Doves Bible)--had such terrifically difficult handwriting to decipher (middle and bottom image), one of several letters by the lawyer-turned-publisher in our special collections...
One of our most beautiful Doves Press titles--and a gift from the late Jack Walsdorf--is this two-volume Men and Women, by Robert Browning published in 1908. Notable about this set is that its Doves Bindery binding, but most spectacular is the unique flourishing by hand throughout each volume after publication by the father of modern calligraphy, Edward Johnston (1872-1944)...
John Milton, (1644), Areopagitica; a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicenc'd printing, to the Parlament of England, Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1907, Edition of 325 (1918 Cambridge University Press edition pdf here) [Tarlton Law Library at The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX]
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John Milton, (1644), Areopagitica; a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicenc'd printing, to the Parlament of England, Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1907, Edition of 325 (1918 Cambridge University Press edition pdf here) [Tarlton Law Library at The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX]
Une police de caractères redécouverte
Petit court métrage de Tom Beal sur la recherche d’une ancienne police de caractères (la Doves Press) par Robert Green.
BBC News UK Website, 2015
FONTS, CHILD PRODIGIES AND DANCERS! Seeker Weekly Bundle, Feb. 23 - 27
We're churning out so many of these that it helps me to think of them in weekly packages. To that end, I thought I'd do a round-up thingy at the end of each week to talk about that we did. There's no thematic thru-line here (though we do have a lot of things about the arctic coming up, for some reason), just five stories and five big ideas from Lissette and I.Â
MONDAY, The Kid Who Invented A Braille Printer Out of Legos: Ok, Shubhamb Banerjee is only 13 and he's already way more of a badass than me (it's a low bar). He used his Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit to build a printer that can turn any document into Braille. All I can build is a house. :(
TUESDAY, The Fight To Save New York Subway Dancers: If you live in New York City, you've seen the Litefeet Dancers. Last year, the NYPD decided to crack down on them big time, but this puts yet another NYC underground art movement at risk. Yeah, on bad days, when all I wanted was to shut the world out, the dancers could be annoying, but I'd be sad to see them go. Also, where do they practice? Some Oceans 11 subway car replica?
WEDNESDAY, The Child Prodigy That Time Forgot: I came across this story from a tweet by John Green, linking to a Lapham's article about Barbara Newhall Follett, the 12-year-old novelist who wrote a few not-just-for-a-kid amazing books, then disappeared forever at 25. Spooky. Also, find her book, The House Without Windows, and read it. So good.
THURSDAY, The Hunt For Europe's Great Lost Typeface: Disclosure: I'm fucking obsessed with fonts. I don't know why, I just am. So this story about Cobden Sanderson (favorite name of the week) and Doves Press sucked me in right away. The dude dumped his font into the Thames river 100 years ago and it was lost...until now! This one's for my typogra-freaks.
FRIDAY, What Makes Social Movements Work: Lissette's only piece for the week, but a killer one. I think about this issue a lot, actually. How do we judge whether social movements are successful? Occupy Wall Street got so much flak for not knowing what it wanted, for not having a solid objectives. It's still debatable whether that's something you need to have, but One Billion Rising, the women's rights movement Lissette talks about here, is very practical in its approach and makes a real difference for women in the world.
Yay! Overall, I think this is a good crop of stories and ideas. These are the stories we'd be reading about and discussing even if we didn't have this show. We just like to think about stuff. We find that fun.
