Monday, 2 November at 5.15 p.m.
" . . . Minutiae
are the bread and butter of both bookmaker and bibliographer. A myriad
seemingly trivial and mundane details all need careful consideration. I’m interested
those details, those decisions that ultimately coalesce into books, books that
function, books that are not only a joy to read, but also a delight to all the
senses and in Carlyle’s words “excite the reader to self activity”. I’m
interested in publishing too, because a book without a reader is worthless,
isn’t it? And, like Philip Gaskell I believe the techniques of
printing are key to understanding how a text comes into existence.
My bibliographer is compiling a descriptive catalogue, so
let’s see if I can help with a few crumbs from the table, so to speak, by considering some of the books I’ve printed since first becoming acquainted with the caduceus
of Hermes.
To flesh out these mundane details I’m including some
anecdotal evidence, which, I hope the bibliographer will find useful and you will
find entertaining. . . . "
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