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A title from The Old School Press Fables for a Despot A dozen of Aesop's
Fables chosen for our current times | |
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About the book When I was researching Oxford University Press's 'Fell types' and their revival in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries I made a small representative collection of books printed in Fell during that period. One of my favourites is a book printed at OUP in 1933 for the Limited Editions Club, entitled simply Aesop's Fables, and containing 198 fables. Designed by Bruce Rogers, it was printed in the Great Primer (~18pt) size of Fell's types on an F J Head handmade laid paper from Barcham Green. Our new book is a tad more modest, running to a dozen of the fables, but carefully chosen for their relevance in this time of increasing authoritarianism and the rise of the despot and the would-be despot. About the edition The book has been a fine opportunity of bringing together our founts of the elegant Hunt Roman and a stock of Barcham Green 'Finale' handmade paper. Following Rogers's example, elements of the text are printed in red, and we have dropped in the occasional ornament that Bruce Rogers designed for Lanston Monotype. The binding is quarter faux vellum with a paste paper by Victoria Hall on the boards and the title debossed in gold. A small edition of just fifty copies. 32pp. £95.
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What others have said about the book |
'a very satisfying book', 'a lovely piece of work', 'a pure joy' |
