A Type Specimen of Garamont: Several Fables of Aesop.

Title

en_US A Type Specimen of Garamont: Several Fables of Aesop.

Description

en_US From the translation of S.A. Handford

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:21Z

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:21Z

Date Issued

en_US 1973

Abstract

en_US See my two other editions from Berliner, using Lutetia (1970) and Baskerville (1971). A first page gives a lovely little history of Garamont, which was first created in 1540, only eleven years after French printing first used roman type. Six fables from Handford's Penguin translation give Berliner a chance to show off specimens of his lovely type with 12, 10, and 8 point Roman and Italic. The illustrations are done in a style I would call psychedelic. It may be hard, as in SS, to get the gestalt of the picture. The Wasp on the Snake's Head in fact has the wasp buzzing around away from the snake's head! I enjoy most BW, TB and the cover picture of a lion reading Aesop's Fables. I had missed this booklet before in Sebastopol; now I had to pay for the miss, since this booklet does not show up frequently! There is one printer's goof, alas!, to note in this little book. In the story about the fox learning to divide for the lion, Handford's Penguin has the following sentence: The lion asked who taught him to share things in that way. 'What happened to the donkey,' he answered. This booklet has: The lion asked who taught him to share things in that way. 'What happened to the donkey?' he answered. What a difference a question-mark makes!

Identifier

en_US 590095358

en_US 3241 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78628

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Citation Press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PN6120.A5 C825 1972 See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole