

“ Standing for sweetness and loveliness, innocence and pure love, the white carnation is the historical good luck gift ”
“ Standing for sweetness and loveliness, innocence and pure love, the white carnation is the historical good luck gift ”
caxton
«Printing [typography] was introduced in England in 1476 by William Caxton, who owes his fame, however, to more than the fact that he was England’s proto-typographer. For he was not only the first of English printers—he was also “the first in a long line of English publishers who have been men of letters … and was likewise one of the earliest in the succession of English merchants and men of affairs who have found recreation and fame in the production of literature.”» [d.b. updike, Printing Types, oxford university press, 1937, p113; updike is quoting from a paper by george parker winship: William Caxton, doves press, 1909] severin corsten in his paper «Caxton in Cologne» gives strong argument deduced from the misty history surrounding caxton’s acquisition of the black art that the city of cologne occasioned his close study of this new technology while seeing an edition of bartholemew’s De Proprietatibus Rerum through the press in the printing of office johann veldener, who, in turn, had learned the art in the office of ulrich zell—cologne’s first printer; caxton may have also materially participated in this publication [Journal of the Printing Historical Society, No.11, 1975/6]. caxton set up his first office at bruge in 1472, where he issued the first printed, english language book, his first literary translation, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, in 1474. finally, caxton returned, with his apparatus & workmen, to london in the autumn of 1476, establishing his office in the grounds of westminster abbey.
richard deacon tells us in his excellent book William Caxton the First English Editor [frederick muller, london, 1976, p92]: «It is clear that Caxton had a passion for the English language, for developing it and for changing it from a hotchpotch of dialects to a cohesive, expressive force.» caxton lamented the kentish weald dialect of his upbringing: «He was for ever striving after changing what he called ‘the rude and old Englyssh’.» [ibid., p55]. deacon’s book is beautifully set throughout in monotype van dijck [english monotype 203], jan van krimpen’s 1937-8 adaptation of the Augustijn Romeyn italic cut by christoffel van dyck, & shown on the 1681 specimen issued as a sales catalogue by the widow of daniel elsevier, in amsterdam [stanley morison, A Tally of Types, cup, 1973, appendix p113 ]—inspiration for setting caxton’s locution in monotype’s digital reissue of van dijck italic. the punches for van dyck’s founts passed down by sale through several foundries, finally again reuniting in 1799 in the famed amsterdam foundry joh. enschedé en zonen [ibid., p115].
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Year of Lyrics, Week 33: Help Me Now by Kevin McHale
I've been battling my brain pretty hard the past two weeks, which you may have been able to guess by the lyrics I've chosen. I'm in one of those brain slumps where you feel like your existence is annoying to everyone around you and any slight change in tone feels like the end of the world. For the most part I know what to expect from my brain when I'm feeling like this, so I know to ignore the feelings because it's just pointless antagonism from my anxiety, but sometimes you're in a situation where you can't tell if someone is actually upset with you or not because they have a right to be. Opening up and asking people to reassure you that you aren't annoying or upsetting them feels annoying so it's a spiral of obnoxious. That's where I've been at all week which is why I chose this specific lyric.
I decided to play around with paint splatters this week. I wanted it to feel busy and layered, like how my brain feels. For the base I did a light green wash, then got the paper super wet and did paint splatters with a toothbrush and let it dry tilted so the pigment migrated in one direction. While that was mostly dry I added a few more green splatters. I then covered part of the page to add black and red drops and splatters with both a paintbrush and the toothbrush. If I was doing this again I think I would have added the red and black after I inked the letters to make it feel a bit more hectic.
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