DOI Heft:
Nr. 43 (October 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17298#0075
Studio- Talk
was determined to produce; but one must not
invert the cause and effect. For these books, the
prospectus of the Vale Press claims that " the
decorations and woodcuts they contain have been
engraved throughout by the designer; the type in
which they are printed has also been designed by
the maker of the decorations, and the builder of
the page. We would suggest that such conditions
have not been realised by any printer or publisher
of the past."
The object of the Vale Press,, we are further told,
is to offer to collectors shapely books and sound
editions carefully edited and printed in the spelling
in which they were written ; in many instances this
return to the original spelling, despite the number
of reprinted editions between, will be for the first
time since their publication. The directors of the
Press believe " that the nineteenth century should
not allow an exception to the hitherto invariable
coincidence of a re-edition of the classics under
current scholarship with revival in printing."
PAGE FROM VALE PRESS PUBLICATION
DESIGNED BY CHARLES R1CKETTS
Books already published, include a delightful
crown quarto, " Early Poems of John Milton," with
frontispiece, border, and initial letters designed and
cut on the wood by Mr. Ricketts; a beautiful demy
octavo volume, " Poems of Sir John Suckling,"
in half binding decorated by the same artist; and
a most dainty " Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa,"
PAGE FROM VALE PRESS PUBLICATION
DESIGNED BY CHARLES RICKETTS
by Walter Savage Landor, with specially designed
border printed in scarlet upon its first page.
Others to be issued shortly, will be " Spiritual
Poems chiefly translated out of many languages by
John Gray," the first two pages of which on a re-
duced scale we are permitted to reproduce here;
and the " Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium," by
Michael Drayton, with a frontispiece, also repro-
duced here in the original size.
All devotees of the printed book will admit
that this is a worthy and accomplished effort to
produce an edition with its own individual dis-
63
was determined to produce; but one must not
invert the cause and effect. For these books, the
prospectus of the Vale Press claims that " the
decorations and woodcuts they contain have been
engraved throughout by the designer; the type in
which they are printed has also been designed by
the maker of the decorations, and the builder of
the page. We would suggest that such conditions
have not been realised by any printer or publisher
of the past."
The object of the Vale Press,, we are further told,
is to offer to collectors shapely books and sound
editions carefully edited and printed in the spelling
in which they were written ; in many instances this
return to the original spelling, despite the number
of reprinted editions between, will be for the first
time since their publication. The directors of the
Press believe " that the nineteenth century should
not allow an exception to the hitherto invariable
coincidence of a re-edition of the classics under
current scholarship with revival in printing."
PAGE FROM VALE PRESS PUBLICATION
DESIGNED BY CHARLES R1CKETTS
Books already published, include a delightful
crown quarto, " Early Poems of John Milton," with
frontispiece, border, and initial letters designed and
cut on the wood by Mr. Ricketts; a beautiful demy
octavo volume, " Poems of Sir John Suckling,"
in half binding decorated by the same artist; and
a most dainty " Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa,"
PAGE FROM VALE PRESS PUBLICATION
DESIGNED BY CHARLES RICKETTS
by Walter Savage Landor, with specially designed
border printed in scarlet upon its first page.
Others to be issued shortly, will be " Spiritual
Poems chiefly translated out of many languages by
John Gray," the first two pages of which on a re-
duced scale we are permitted to reproduce here;
and the " Nimphidia and the Muses Elizium," by
Michael Drayton, with a frontispiece, also repro-
duced here in the original size.
All devotees of the printed book will admit
that this is a worthy and accomplished effort to
produce an edition with its own individual dis-
63