the sky and the ground (for Remy Charlip), Michael Dumontier, 2012, foil stamp on found books.Sometimes we just need labels to explain what we are seeing.::From Stopping Off Place via vineet kaur.
The Golden Rules of Typography
The Golden Alphabet; or Parent's Guide and Child's Instructor, published by Robert Taylor. This extremely rare miniature alphabet book from 1846 contains some beautiful decorated initials, followed by several pages of rhymes and moral platitudes for parenting and instruction of children. Based on these three images, I can only presume that Taylor was a far better evangelist than he was a printer or typesetter. Damn the wordspacing and to hell with letterspacing! The word kern must have been just a four-letter word to Taylor. If only he would have listened to his printer's devil and followed some of the golden rules of typography—but then this...
A Natural Selection
This complete set of 108 British natural history books sold recently at Bonhams for over $8200. The New Naturalist, containing topics relevant to the British Isles, is arguably one of the most influential natural history series ever published and has been in continual publication by Collins since 1945.It was first published just after WWII ended and signaled a renewal for the beleaguered Brits at that time. In the editors' words, it was intended to "recapture the inquiring spirit of the old naturalists" and to foster "the natural pride of the British public in their native fauna and flora". The first two titles sold more than 30,000 copies each in their...