{"id":112,"date":"2013-03-05T12:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slisapps.sjsu.edu\/blogs\/280\/azurite\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2013-03-05T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:53:31","slug":"pbphysical-description-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/printed-book-project\/pbphysical-description-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Description – II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Type<\/h2>\n

Using William Caslon’s\u00a0specimen\u00a0sheet<\/a> from Ephraim Chamber’s 1728\u00a0Chambers, Ephraim<\/em> (bound between pages 444 and 445) as a guide, I believe that the type used in\u00a0The Housekeeper’s Valuable Present\u00a0<\/em>is a combination of English Roman and English Italic, or some similar type.<\/p>\n

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On the left is a section from William Caslon’s specimen sheet, and on the right is an excerpt from The Housekeeper’s Valuable Present.<\/p><\/div>\n

Caslon’s roman typeface, created in 1720, became an exemplar of readability. \u00a0He is also responsible for the first major type foundry in Britain – his Chiswell Street Foundry which he opened in 1737 and which stayed in business for more than 120 years (Sanborn, 1999).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>It is not recorded what specific type was used to print\u00a0The Housekeeper’s Valuable Present<\/em>, but a case can be made for either Caslon’s type or something based upon it.<\/p>\n

Color Printing<\/h2>\n

The entirety of The Housekeeper’s Valuable Present<\/em> is in black and white, though it does have some decorative images.<\/p>\n

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Decoration from the end of the table of contents, page xii.<\/p><\/div>\n

Binding<\/h2>\n

The Library of Congress’s digitization of this book includes images of the bindings, but it has no information to imply that they are original to the text. \u00a0They appear to be leather with a dust jacket. \u00a0It also has a green and white striped headband.<\/p>\n

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The Library of Congress’s digitization of the binding for their copy in the Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

While some bindings in the eighteenth century were lavish, with illustrative fore-edges and other luxuries (Avrin, 1991, p. 319-321), the title page offers a curious insight into Cooke’s operation both as publisher and bookseller.<\/p>\n

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Bottom of Title Page.<\/p><\/div>\n

It would seem that Cooke sold books both as unbound textblocks (for two shillings) and “neatly bound”\u00a0<\/span><\/span>codices\u00a0(for two shillings, six pence). \u00a0“Neatly bound” may just be an industry term, as it is used several times in an 1838\u00a0<\/span>advertisement\u00a0for John Bryant’s bookshop describing his catalog (Bryant, 1838).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Endleaves and Flyleaves<\/h2>\n

There are four flyleaves and four endleaves in this edition. \u00a0The endpapers are plain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Type Using William Caslon’s\u00a0specimen\u00a0sheet from Ephraim Chamber’s 1728\u00a0Chambers, Ephraim (bound between pages 444 and 445) as a guide, I believe that the type used in\u00a0The Housekeeper’s Valuable Present\u00a0is a combination of English Roman and English Italic, or some similar type. Caslon’s roman typeface, created in 1720, became an exemplar of readability. \u00a0He is also responsible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/azurite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}