The Book of the Erinyes

I’ve just got back from this week’s let­ter­press work­shop where I man­aged to print some proofs (photo below) of the title and half-title pages of the Book of the Erinyes.

These two pages will make up the first sig­na­ture of the book.  The sig­na­tures only con­sist of 2 sheets (8 pages in total, Crown Quarto size — 7½″ x 10″) because of the thick­ness of the 220gm cart­ridge paper I’m print­ing on.

The half-title page is set in 48pt Goudy, and the title page is in vari­ous smal­ler Goudy & Goudy Italic type with a dec­or­at­ive block.

link to high res­ol­u­tion scan of title page (JPEG ~415KB)

Tags: letterpress, movable type, printing, printmaking

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