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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

A Scarce Libation: Bacchus, Rumfusticus Bibulus, and R. Cruikshank

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by Stephen J. Gertz Meeting of Victuallers.   "The Publicans, as well as every other branch of the community, were aware that re...
Monday, September 10, 2012

The Artistic Roots of Modern Typography

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by Alastair Johnston Matthew McLennan Young The Rise and Fall of the Printers' International Specimen Exchange. Oak Knoll Press $59.95...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

Meet John Guttemberg, Printer

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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1657, London stationer William Lee issued the fifth (sixth) edition of Thomas North's translation of Plutarch...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

A Leopard Gave Its Life For This Binding

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by Stephen J. Gertz   Sometime between 1828 and 1832, a copy of One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected by James Northcote (1828) was b...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Mr. Bunting in Paradise

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by Alastair Johnston Bunting's Persia . Translations by Basil Bunting. Edited by Don Share. Flood Editions , 2012. Ask your distant ...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

D-I-V-O-R-C-E or, John Milton on Splitsville

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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1643, poet John Milton , who later wrote Paradise Lost , anonymously published The Doctrine and Discipline of Divo...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Female Excellence: Satyr Pokes Women

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by Stephen J. Gertz The most celebrated wit and courtier in Restoration England, John Wilmont, 2d Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) suffered...