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  1. #AskFedi - one for the #history enthusiasts.

    Those pamphlets from a few hundred years ago, which are like

    "An
    ANSWER
    to the
    XYZ.
    Being an
    ACCOUNT
    of the
    ſomething-or-other
    EXPLAINING
    why ſo-and-ſo
    has it all wrong."

    (I can't fully do the style justice without (a) already knowing them a bit better, and (b) having italics to play with in the formatting here! but I feel sure you'll know the things I mean :-) )

    I am on a bit of a geeky sidetrack about the style and language of these. I would really like to find a stash of them where I can flip through like 100 examples of those title pages, and "get my eye in" for their vibe. Or failing that, at least a dozen.

    Searching isn't doing it for me, because I'm finding mostly either explanations _about_ the making of them, or later examples which don't have the glorious miscellany of type styles.

    Does such a collection exist online? Where should I be looking?

    Or would my only hope be to physically visit a library? (which realistically I probably wouldn't get around to, as this is only a side enthusiasm, but maybe one day. I'm based in Nottingham, England.)

    Thanks in advance for clues!

    #pamphlets #PrintHistory

  2. #AskFedi - one for the #history enthusiasts.

    Those pamphlets from a few hundred years ago, which are like

    "An
    ANSWER
    to the
    XYZ.
    Being an
    ACCOUNT
    of the
    ſomething-or-other
    EXPLAINING
    why ſo-and-ſo
    has it all wrong."

    (I can't fully do the style justice without (a) already knowing them a bit better, and (b) having italics to play with in the formatting here! but I feel sure you'll know the things I mean :-) )

    I am on a bit of a geeky sidetrack about the style and language of these. I would really like to find a stash of them where I can flip through like 100 examples of those title pages, and "get my eye in" for their vibe. Or failing that, at least a dozen.

    Searching isn't doing it for me, because I'm finding mostly either explanations _about_ the making of them, or later examples which don't have the glorious miscellany of type styles.

    Does such a collection exist online? Where should I be looking?

    Or would my only hope be to physically visit a library? (which realistically I probably wouldn't get around to, as this is only a side enthusiasm, but maybe one day. I'm based in Nottingham, England.)

    Thanks in advance for clues!

    #pamphlets #PrintHistory

  3. #AskFedi - one for the #history enthusiasts.

    Those pamphlets from a few hundred years ago, which are like

    "An
    ANSWER
    to the
    XYZ.
    Being an
    ACCOUNT
    of the
    ſomething-or-other
    EXPLAINING
    why ſo-and-ſo
    has it all wrong."

    (I can't fully do the style justice without (a) already knowing them a bit better, and (b) having italics to play with in the formatting here! but I feel sure you'll know the things I mean :-) )

    I am on a bit of a geeky sidetrack about the style and language of these. I would really like to find a stash of them where I can flip through like 100 examples of those title pages, and "get my eye in" for their vibe. Or failing that, at least a dozen.

    Searching isn't doing it for me, because I'm finding mostly either explanations _about_ the making of them, or later examples which don't have the glorious miscellany of type styles.

    Does such a collection exist online? Where should I be looking?

    Or would my only hope be to physically visit a library? (which realistically I probably wouldn't get around to, as this is only a side enthusiasm, but maybe one day. I'm based in Nottingham, England.)

    Thanks in advance for clues!

    #pamphlets #PrintHistory

  4. #AskFedi - one for the #history enthusiasts.

    Those pamphlets from a few hundred years ago, which are like

    "An
    ANSWER
    to the
    XYZ.
    Being an
    ACCOUNT
    of the
    ſomething-or-other
    EXPLAINING
    why ſo-and-ſo
    has it all wrong."

    (I can't fully do the style justice without (a) already knowing them a bit better, and (b) having italics to play with in the formatting here! but I feel sure you'll know the things I mean :-) )

    I am on a bit of a geeky sidetrack about the style and language of these. I would really like to find a stash of them where I can flip through like 100 examples of those title pages, and "get my eye in" for their vibe. Or failing that, at least a dozen.

    Searching isn't doing it for me, because I'm finding mostly either explanations _about_ the making of them, or later examples which don't have the glorious miscellany of type styles.

    Does such a collection exist online? Where should I be looking?

    Or would my only hope be to physically visit a library? (which realistically I probably wouldn't get around to, as this is only a side enthusiasm, but maybe one day. I'm based in Nottingham, England.)

    Thanks in advance for clues!

    #pamphlets #PrintHistory

  5. #AskFedi - one for the #history enthusiasts.

    Those pamphlets from a few hundred years ago, which are like

    "An
    ANSWER
    to the
    XYZ.
    Being an
    ACCOUNT
    of the
    ſomething-or-other
    EXPLAINING
    why ſo-and-ſo
    has it all wrong."

    (I can't fully do the style justice without (a) already knowing them a bit better, and (b) having italics to play with in the formatting here! but I feel sure you'll know the things I mean :-) )

    I am on a bit of a geeky sidetrack about the style and language of these. I would really like to find a stash of them where I can flip through like 100 examples of those title pages, and "get my eye in" for their vibe. Or failing that, at least a dozen.

    Searching isn't doing it for me, because I'm finding mostly either explanations _about_ the making of them, or later examples which don't have the glorious miscellany of type styles.

    Does such a collection exist online? Where should I be looking?

    Or would my only hope be to physically visit a library? (which realistically I probably wouldn't get around to, as this is only a side enthusiasm, but maybe one day. I'm based in Nottingham, England.)

    Thanks in advance for clues!

    #pamphlets #PrintHistory

  6. Martin Schongauer has done some griffonmaxxing ! The griffon of classical antiquity was half lion, half eagle. Schongauer’s griffon is a blend of eagle, rooster, and bull – and isn’t this griffon owning his look! 1/ #earlymodern #medieval #Renaissance #printhistory #arthistory #monsters

  7. Martin Schongauer has done some griffonmaxxing ! The griffon of classical antiquity was half lion, half eagle. Schongauer’s griffon is a blend of eagle, rooster, and bull – and isn’t this griffon owning his look! 1/ #earlymodern #medieval #Renaissance #printhistory #arthistory #monsters

  8. Martin Schongauer has done some griffonmaxxing ! The griffon of classical antiquity was half lion, half eagle. Schongauer’s griffon is a blend of eagle, rooster, and bull – and isn’t this griffon owning his look! 1/ #earlymodern #medieval #Renaissance #printhistory #arthistory #monsters

  9. Martin Schongauer has done some griffonmaxxing ! The griffon of classical antiquity was half lion, half eagle. Schongauer’s griffon is a blend of eagle, rooster, and bull – and isn’t this griffon owning his look! 1/ #earlymodern #medieval #Renaissance #printhistory #arthistory #monsters

  10. Martin Schongauer has done some griffonmaxxing ! The griffon of classical antiquity was half lion, half eagle. Schongauer’s griffon is a blend of eagle, rooster, and bull – and isn’t this griffon owning his look! 1/ #earlymodern #medieval #Renaissance #printhistory #arthistory #monsters

  11. Animal cyborg sighting – from the Middle Ages, no less! Now at the Louvre in the Martin Schongauer exhibition, until July 20. 1/ #earlymodern #printhistory #arthistory #Renaissance #medieval

  12. Animal cyborg sighting – from the Middle Ages, no less! Now at the Louvre in the Martin Schongauer exhibition, until July 20. 1/ #earlymodern #printhistory #arthistory #Renaissance #medieval

  13. Animal cyborg sighting – from the Middle Ages, no less! Now at the Louvre in the Martin Schongauer exhibition, until July 20. 1/ #earlymodern #printhistory #arthistory #Renaissance #medieval

  14. Animal cyborg sighting – from the Middle Ages, no less! Now at the Louvre in the Martin Schongauer exhibition, until July 20. 1/ #earlymodern #printhistory #arthistory #Renaissance #medieval

  15. Animal cyborg sighting – from the Middle Ages, no less! Now at the Louvre in the Martin Schongauer exhibition, until July 20. 1/ #earlymodern #printhistory #arthistory #Renaissance #medieval

  16. #printhistory friends: We have an elementary school class coming into @[email protected] as part of their unit on the American Revolution & I’m wondering if there’s something related to kids in the 18th century we could try to reproduce on the press? Ideas beyond the Declaration, &c.?

  17. #printhistory friends: We have an elementary school class coming into @[email protected] as part of their unit on the American Revolution & I’m wondering if there’s something related to kids in the 18th century we could try to reproduce on the press? Ideas beyond the Declaration, &c.?

  18. #printhistory friends: We have an elementary school class coming into @[email protected] as part of their unit on the American Revolution & I’m wondering if there’s something related to kids in the 18th century we could try to reproduce on the press? Ideas beyond the Declaration, &c.?

  19. #printhistory friends: We have an elementary school class coming into @[email protected] as part of their unit on the American Revolution & I’m wondering if there’s something related to kids in the 18th century we could try to reproduce on the press? Ideas beyond the Declaration, &c.?

  20. #printhistory friends: We have an elementary school class coming into @[email protected] as part of their unit on the American Revolution & I’m wondering if there’s something related to kids in the 18th century we could try to reproduce on the press? Ideas beyond the Declaration, &c.?

  21. Jeudi et vendredi prochain, à Versailles, nous organisons avec Anne Rochebouet un colloque intitulé "Textes, livres et discours à l'épreuve de l'imprimé".

    L'idée est de se demander ce que le nouveau média fait à l'organisation des savoirs et des discours médiévaux dans la deuxième moitié du XVe et le début du XVIe siècle. Les questions de mise en page, de mise en image, d'évolutions ou de continuités linguistiques et matérielles seront envisagées par les participants, issus de différentes disciplines (histoire, lettres, linguistique, histoire de l'art...). Ping @teol03 🙂

    L'entrée est libre, mais l'inscription est obligatoire !

    dypac.uvsq.fr/colloque-textes-

    #histodon #histodons #printhistory

  22. Jeudi et vendredi prochain, à Versailles, nous organisons avec Anne Rochebouet un colloque intitulé "Textes, livres et discours à l'épreuve de l'imprimé".

    L'idée est de se demander ce que le nouveau média fait à l'organisation des savoirs et des discours médiévaux dans la deuxième moitié du XVe et le début du XVIe siècle. Les questions de mise en page, de mise en image, d'évolutions ou de continuités linguistiques et matérielles seront envisagées par les participants, issus de différentes disciplines (histoire, lettres, linguistique, histoire de l'art...). Ping @teol03 🙂

    L'entrée est libre, mais l'inscription est obligatoire !

    dypac.uvsq.fr/colloque-textes-

    #histodon #histodons #printhistory

  23. Jeudi et vendredi prochain, à Versailles, nous organisons avec Anne Rochebouet un colloque intitulé "Textes, livres et discours à l'épreuve de l'imprimé".

    L'idée est de se demander ce que le nouveau média fait à l'organisation des savoirs et des discours médiévaux dans la deuxième moitié du XVe et le début du XVIe siècle. Les questions de mise en page, de mise en image, d'évolutions ou de continuités linguistiques et matérielles seront envisagées par les participants, issus de différentes disciplines (histoire, lettres, linguistique, histoire de l'art...). Ping @teol03 🙂

    L'entrée est libre, mais l'inscription est obligatoire !

    dypac.uvsq.fr/colloque-textes-

    #histodon #histodons #printhistory

  24. Jeudi et vendredi prochain, à Versailles, nous organisons avec Anne Rochebouet un colloque intitulé "Textes, livres et discours à l'épreuve de l'imprimé".

    L'idée est de se demander ce que le nouveau média fait à l'organisation des savoirs et des discours médiévaux dans la deuxième moitié du XVe et le début du XVIe siècle. Les questions de mise en page, de mise en image, d'évolutions ou de continuités linguistiques et matérielles seront envisagées par les participants, issus de différentes disciplines (histoire, lettres, linguistique, histoire de l'art...). Ping @teol03 🙂

    L'entrée est libre, mais l'inscription est obligatoire !

    dypac.uvsq.fr/colloque-textes-

    #histodon #histodons #printhistory

  25. Jeudi et vendredi prochain, à Versailles, nous organisons avec Anne Rochebouet un colloque intitulé "Textes, livres et discours à l'épreuve de l'imprimé".

    L'idée est de se demander ce que le nouveau média fait à l'organisation des savoirs et des discours médiévaux dans la deuxième moitié du XVe et le début du XVIe siècle. Les questions de mise en page, de mise en image, d'évolutions ou de continuités linguistiques et matérielles seront envisagées par les participants, issus de différentes disciplines (histoire, lettres, linguistique, histoire de l'art...). Ping @teol03 🙂

    L'entrée est libre, mais l'inscription est obligatoire !

    dypac.uvsq.fr/colloque-textes-

    #histodon #histodons #printhistory

  26. Collective Agency and Resistance during Japanese American Incarceration: The Amache Silk Screen Shop documents the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado.
    link.springer.com/book/10.1007
    #JapaneseAmericans #AsianAmericanArt #Silkscreen #PrintHistory #ArtAsProtest

  27. Collective Agency and Resistance during Japanese American Incarceration: The Amache Silk Screen Shop documents the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado.
    link.springer.com/book/10.1007
    #JapaneseAmericans #AsianAmericanArt #Silkscreen #PrintHistory #ArtAsProtest

  28. Collective Agency and Resistance during Japanese American Incarceration: The Amache Silk Screen Shop documents the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado.
    link.springer.com/book/10.1007
    #JapaneseAmericans #AsianAmericanArt #Silkscreen #PrintHistory #ArtAsProtest

  29. Collective Agency and Resistance during Japanese American Incarceration: The Amache Silk Screen Shop documents the Silk Screen Shop (1943-45) at the Granada War Relocation Center (“Amache”) in Colorado.
    link.springer.com/book/10.1007
    #JapaneseAmericans #AsianAmericanArt #Silkscreen #PrintHistory #ArtAsProtest

  30. Fascinating:
    What survives of early Hungarian print?
    Out of ~6000 known works before 1700, how many have vanished? This post explores the metadata—and the limits—of our bibliographical knowledge.
    @kiru
    #PrintHistory #HungarianHistory #BookHistory #Bibliography #DigitalHumanities
    translationpatterns.substack.c

  31. Fascinating:
    What survives of early Hungarian print?
    Out of ~6000 known works before 1700, how many have vanished? This post explores the metadata—and the limits—of our bibliographical knowledge.
    @kiru
    #PrintHistory #HungarianHistory #BookHistory #Bibliography #DigitalHumanities
    translationpatterns.substack.c

  32. Fascinating:
    What survives of early Hungarian print?
    Out of ~6000 known works before 1700, how many have vanished? This post explores the metadata—and the limits—of our bibliographical knowledge.
    @kiru
    #PrintHistory #HungarianHistory #BookHistory #Bibliography #DigitalHumanities
    translationpatterns.substack.c

  33. Fascinating:
    What survives of early Hungarian print?
    Out of ~6000 known works before 1700, how many have vanished? This post explores the metadata—and the limits—of our bibliographical knowledge.
    @kiru
    #PrintHistory #HungarianHistory #BookHistory #Bibliography #DigitalHumanities
    translationpatterns.substack.c

  34. Fascinating:
    What survives of early Hungarian print?
    Out of ~6000 known works before 1700, how many have vanished? This post explores the metadata—and the limits—of our bibliographical knowledge.
    @kiru
    #PrintHistory #HungarianHistory #BookHistory #Bibliography #DigitalHumanities
    translationpatterns.substack.c

  35. And that's it! Sent off the new training set and hopefully improve the issues I have encountered!
    I will also use this model for the 1728 print. It's a different printing press, but overall, the two prints are very much alike, and so is the #Fraktur type they use. #Transkribus #EthicaComplementoria #HTR #EarlyModern #PrintHistory

  36. And that's it! Sent off the new training set and hopefully improve the issues I have encountered!
    I will also use this model for the 1728 print. It's a different printing press, but overall, the two prints are very much alike, and so is the #Fraktur type they use. #Transkribus #EthicaComplementoria #HTR #EarlyModern #PrintHistory

  37. And that's it! Sent off the new training set and hopefully improve the issues I have encountered!
    I will also use this model for the 1728 print. It's a different printing press, but overall, the two prints are very much alike, and so is the #Fraktur type they use. #Transkribus #EthicaComplementoria #HTR #EarlyModern #PrintHistory

  38. And that's it! Sent off the new training set and hopefully improve the issues I have encountered!
    I will also use this model for the 1728 print. It's a different printing press, but overall, the two prints are very much alike, and so is the #Fraktur type they use. #Transkribus #EthicaComplementoria #HTR #EarlyModern #PrintHistory

  39. And that's it! Sent off the new training set and hopefully improve the issues I have encountered!
    I will also use this model for the 1728 print. It's a different printing press, but overall, the two prints are very much alike, and so is the #Fraktur type they use. #Transkribus #EthicaComplementoria #HTR #EarlyModern #PrintHistory

  40. This phenomenon is highlighted because the #HTR model I've been training to recognize the text had too few characters in cursive in the training set. So they get misread, and I have to correct them, thus becoming hyperaware of these differences in the typesetting.
    When I'm done, I will reconstruct the sheets and printing order to look at the distribution of spelling and other errors and typographical conventions. Exciting! #BookHistory #PrintHistory #AnalyticBibliography

  41. This phenomenon is highlighted because the #HTR model I've been training to recognize the text had too few characters in cursive in the training set. So they get misread, and I have to correct them, thus becoming hyperaware of these differences in the typesetting.
    When I'm done, I will reconstruct the sheets and printing order to look at the distribution of spelling and other errors and typographical conventions. Exciting! #BookHistory #PrintHistory #AnalyticBibliography

  42. This phenomenon is highlighted because the #HTR model I've been training to recognize the text had too few characters in cursive in the training set. So they get misread, and I have to correct them, thus becoming hyperaware of these differences in the typesetting.
    When I'm done, I will reconstruct the sheets and printing order to look at the distribution of spelling and other errors and typographical conventions. Exciting! #BookHistory #PrintHistory #AnalyticBibliography

  43. This phenomenon is highlighted because the #HTR model I've been training to recognize the text had too few characters in cursive in the training set. So they get misread, and I have to correct them, thus becoming hyperaware of these differences in the typesetting.
    When I'm done, I will reconstruct the sheets and printing order to look at the distribution of spelling and other errors and typographical conventions. Exciting! #BookHistory #PrintHistory #AnalyticBibliography

  44. This phenomenon is highlighted because the #HTR model I've been training to recognize the text had too few characters in cursive in the training set. So they get misread, and I have to correct them, thus becoming hyperaware of these differences in the typesetting.
    When I'm done, I will reconstruct the sheets and printing order to look at the distribution of spelling and other errors and typographical conventions. Exciting! #BookHistory #PrintHistory #AnalyticBibliography

  45. In the '70s and '80s, if you wanted to set type for yourself, you had to resort to presstype, transfer lettering, Letraset – there were a bunch of names and a bunch of brands, of which Letraset was the highest quality. I think this stuff cost about $8 a sheet back then, when I was making about $2 an hour, so it was a real indulgence, and once I chose a sheet, it got used for any project I needed type for.

    #typography #typesetting #printing #printhistory #PrintingProduction #Letraset #presstype

  46. In the '70s and '80s, if you wanted to set type for yourself, you had to resort to presstype, transfer lettering, Letraset – there were a bunch of names and a bunch of brands, of which Letraset was the highest quality. I think this stuff cost about $8 a sheet back then, when I was making about $2 an hour, so it was a real indulgence, and once I chose a sheet, it got used for any project I needed type for.

    #typography #typesetting #printing #printhistory #PrintingProduction #Letraset #presstype

  47. In the '70s and '80s, if you wanted to set type for yourself, you had to resort to presstype, transfer lettering, Letraset – there were a bunch of names and a bunch of brands, of which Letraset was the highest quality. I think this stuff cost about $8 a sheet back then, when I was making about $2 an hour, so it was a real indulgence, and once I chose a sheet, it got used for any project I needed type for.

    #typography #typesetting #printing #printhistory #PrintingProduction #Letraset #presstype

  48. Improbably, I’m about to hit 11,000 followers on Mastodon—that’s nearly 40% of what I had on Twitter and 4,000% better conversation! I had a week-end 10% off sale of my ebooks and letterpress-printed books and other material when I hit 10,000.

    I’m doing a flash 10% sale again for the next 24 hours! Go to glog.glennf.com/the-store and use code MASTELEVEN at checkout! #letterpress #type #typography #printing #capitalletters #printhistory

  49. Improbably, I’m about to hit 11,000 followers on Mastodon—that’s nearly 40% of what I had on Twitter and 4,000% better conversation! I had a week-end 10% off sale of my ebooks and letterpress-printed books and other material when I hit 10,000.

    I’m doing a flash 10% sale again for the next 24 hours! Go to glog.glennf.com/the-store and use code MASTELEVEN at checkout! #letterpress #type #typography #printing #capitalletters #printhistory

  50. Improbably, I’m about to hit 11,000 followers on Mastodon—that’s nearly 40% of what I had on Twitter and 4,000% better conversation! I had a week-end 10% off sale of my ebooks and letterpress-printed books and other material when I hit 10,000.

    I’m doing a flash 10% sale again for the next 24 hours! Go to glog.glennf.com/the-store and use code MASTELEVEN at checkout! #letterpress #type #typography #printing #capitalletters #printhistory