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English printers' ornaments by Henry R. Plomer
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70528
In the following pages an attempt has been made to give an outline history of the introduction of ornaments into books printed by English printers and the subsequent growth and development of the art down to the present day.
Printers’ ornaments include head and tail pieces, initial letters, borders to title-pages or text, and decorative blocks such as those which were used freely by the sixteenth century printer, Henry Bynneman, and others. Printers’ devices, being in the nature of trade marks, have no place in this volume, as, although decorative in themselves, they were not used simply for the sake of embellishing the page.
Although it is generally believed that English printers were on the whole inartistic, and that many of the best[viii] designs were borrowed from foreign countries, there is no lack of good material for a work on English printers’ ornaments from the fifteenth onwards to the nineteenth century. Many famous names of special printers come to mind in early English books of the sixteenth century, such as Denham, Bynneman, Wolfe, and John Day.
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I’ve been thinking about country based things way too much recently… you can tell. I wanna raaangeee liiiifee.
#homestuck#homestuck fanart#dirk strider#hs fanart#dirkjake#jake english#blooby posting#Still very ill by the way#Someone send me a get well soon card#Also really want to make little paper DirkJake dolls.#As a fun craft#Will do it when I can be bothered to get up and run my crappy printer#it’s so bad dude. I’m not joking#Fully rendered Jake with the little dotty eyes made me laugh a little as well#I’m so tired man
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Here are two of the most hilariously scalding letters from the 1800s that I have ever read. One is by the famous writer Lord Byron, and the other is by his daughter Ada Lovelace, the famous mathematician. Both are written to their respective business partners: Byron to his publisher John Murray, and Lovelace to her colleague Charles Babbage. It’s interesting to note how strikingly similar these letters are despite the fact that Ada and her father never knew each other, as her parents separated shortly after her birth and he died abroad when she was eight. Both were rebellious, fond of gambling, prone to tumultuous affairs, and both hated Lady Byron. These similarities may help to explain why her final wish was to be buried next to him instead of her family.
Lord Byron in a Letter to his publisher John Murray about the printing of his magnum opus, the poem Don Juan:
“Ra. August 31st. 1821.
Dear Sir
I have received the Juans – which are printed so carelessly especially the 5th. Canto – as to be disgraceful to me — & not creditable to you.
It really must be gone over again with the Manuscript – the errors are so gross – words added – changed – so as to make cacophony & nonsense. — You have been careless of this poem because some of your Synod don’t approve of it – but I tell you – it will be long before you see any thing half so good as poetry or writing. — Upon what principle have you omitted the note on Bacon & Voltaire? and one of the concluding stanzas sent as an addition? because it ended I suppose – with –
‘And do not link two virtuous souls for life Into that moral Centaur man & wife?’
Now I must say once for all – that I will not permit any human being to take such liberties with my writings – because I am absent. —
I desire the omissions to be replaced (except the stanza on Semiramis) particularly the stanza upon the Turkish marriages – and I request that the whole be carefully gone over with the M.S.S. –
I never saw such stuff as is printed – Gulleyaz – instead of Gulbeyaz &c. Are you aware that Gulbeyaz is a real name – and the other nonsense? – I copied the Cantos out carefully – so that there is no excuse – as the Printer reads or at least prints the M.S.S. of the plays without error. —
If you have no feeling for your own reputation pray have some little for mine. — I have read over the poem carefully – and I tell you it is poetry – Your little envious knot of parson-poets may say what they please — time will show that I am not in this instance mistaken. — Desire my friend Hobhouse to correct the press especially of the last Canto from the Manuscript – as it is – it is enough to drive one out of one’s senses – to see the infernal torture of words from the original. – For instance the line
‘And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves’
Is printed
‘and praise their rhymes &c. –
also ‘precarious’ for ‘precocious’ – and this line. stanza 133.
‘And this strong extreme effect – to tire no longer’
Now do turn to the Manuscript – & see – if I ever made such a line – it is not verse. —
No wonder the poem should fail – (which however it wont you will see) with such things allowed to creep about it. – – Replace what is omitted – – & correct what is so shamefully misprinted, – and let the poem have fair play – – and I fear nothing. — I see in the last two Numbers of the Quarterly – a strong itching to assail me (see the review of the “Etonian”) let it – and see if they shan’t have enough of it. – – I don’t allude to Gifford – who has always been my friend – & whom I do not consider as responsible for the articles written by others. – But if I do not give Mr. Milman – Mr. Southey – & others of the crew something that shall occupy their dream! I am not what I was – that is all
I have not begun with the Quarterers – but let them look to it. – As for Milman (you well know I have not been unfair to his poetry ever) but I have lately had some information of his critical proceedings in the Quarterly which may bring that on him which he will be sorry for. – I happen to know that of him – Which would annihilate him – when he pretends to preach morality – not that he is immoral – because he isn’t – having in early life been once too much so. – And dares he set up for a preacher? let him go and be priest to Cybele. – why let
You will publish the plays – when ready — I am in such a humour about this printing of D.J. so inaccurately – that I must close this.
yrs. [scrawl]
P.S. I presume that you have not lost the stanza to which I allude? it was sent afterwards look over my letters – & find it. The Notes you can’t have lost – you acknowledged them – they included eight or little corrections of Bacon’s mistakes in the apothegms. – And now I ask once more if such liberties taken in a man’s absence – are fair or praise-worthy? – As for you you have no opinions of your own – & never had – but are blown about by the last thing said to you no matter by whom.”
[Separate page]
“Dear Sir
The enclosed letter is written in bad humour – but not without provocation. -
However – let it (that is the bad humour) go for little – but I must request your serious attention to the abuses of the printer which ought never to have been permitted. – You forget that all the fools in London (the chief purchasers of your publications) will condemn in me the stupidity of your printer. — For instance in the Notes to Canto fifth – ‘the Adriatic shore of the Bosphorus – instead of the Asiatic!! – All this may seem little to you – so fine a gentleman with your ministerial connections – but it is serious to me – who am thousands of miles off & have no opportunity of not proving myself the fool yr. printer makes me – except your pleasure & leisure forsooth.
The Gods prosper you — & forgive you, for I wont.
B.”
Ada Lovelace in a letter to her work partner Charles Babbage, who she helped invent the computer with:
“Tuesday Afternoon [1 August 1843] Ockham
. . . Note B has plagued me to death; altho' I have made but little alteration in it. Such alterations as there are however, happen to have been very tiresome & to have demanded minute consideration & very nice adjustments.
It is a very excellent Note.
I wish you were as accurate, & as much to be relied on, as I am myself. You might often save me much trouble, if you were; whereas you in reality add to my trouble not infrequently; and there is at any rate always the anxiety of doubting if you will not get me into a scrape; even when you don't.
By the way, I hope you do not take upon yourself to alter any of my corrections.
I must beg you not. They all have some very sufficient reason. And you have made a pretty mess & confusion in one or two places (which I will show you sometime), where you have ventured in my M.S's, to insert or alter a phrase or word; & have utterly muddled the sense.
I could not conceive at first in one or two places what had happened to my sentences; tho' I soon saw they were patchwork & not my own; and found it so, on referring to the M.S. I fear you will think this a very cross letter. Never mind. I am a good little thing, after all. Yours ever
A. A. L.
Later. P. S. It is impossible to send you anything but Notes B and C; (& this partly owing to some wrong references & blunderations of your own). — Do not be afraid, for I will work like the Devil early tomorrow morning. —“
[Separate Page]
“Wednesday, 4 o'clock [2 August 1843] Ockham
After working almost incessantly, since 7 o'clock this morning, until I am forced to give in from sheer inability to apply longer, I find only the sheet I enclose is quite completed. I shall however send a servant up tomorrow morning by a ten o' clock train, to take you all the rest; so that you will have it almost as soon as this letter.
You cannot conceive the trouble I have had with the trigonometrical Note E. — In fact no one but me, I really believe, would have doggedly stuck to it, as I have been doing, in all wearing minutiae.
I am very uneasy at not hearing from you, as I have expected to do both yesterday & today; & fear some disaster or other. I hope all of Note G is forthcoming; & I also hope you have received all my communications safely.
I think you had better do the second revise of the translation for me. If you will compare it carefully with my first revise, it can hardly be necessary I think for me to go over it again.
I suppose I ought to take it for granted that no news is good news; but I am in a sad fidget. — Yours ever
A. L.”
#‘no wonder the poem should fail’ ‘i fear nothing’#‘i am in such a humour’ ‘the stupidity of your printer’#‘the gods prosper u & forgive u - for i wont’#‘all the fools in london (the chief purchasers of your publications)’#‘i wish u were as accurate and to be relied upon as myself’#‘you in reality add to my trouble not infrequently’#‘they were patchwork & not my own’#literature#english literature#dark academia#poetry#romanticism#lord byron#history#writing#ada lovelace#computer history#computer science history#math history#literary history#letters#funny#1800s#victorian#regency#drama#historical#humour#lit#correspondence
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NANASH MUMEI HOLOGRA DROPPED! Gal really just destroyed an entire civilization OVER Printers but its okay women can be silly and make mistakes!
#hololive en#hololive#hololive council#hololive english#nanashi mumei#SHE IS SO SILLY DEATH TO PRINTERS#Her voice acting has improved so bad#HAKOS BAELZ NEXT WEEK LETS GOOOO BABYYYY#Your honor she was simply feeling silly
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what if i'm sosososososo tired. what then
#the burn out is swiftly approaching#i'm going to go insane at the beginning of this project i asked basic questions like. what size do you want these labels?#do you want them in both of the languages of this province so to adhere to the language laws?#and the answer was for both: no :) it's okay#so i a) estimated the size based on vibes because i was given nothing else#and b) did them all in english#and then i get told. oh no the labels are too big!!! you have to resize!! no not to the template the printers sent me just go by vibes!!!!#(i had to resize them for her TWICE)#and now i'm being asked if i can put both languages in#i cannot stress how long ago these labels were finished#and how i asked very specifically about both these things at the beginning to avoid this very situation#anyways i'm losing my fucking mind#also i worked 40+ hours in the last 4 days and i'm exhausted and my one day off is for design meetings and then back to work for another 3
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never underestimate stoner ingenuity
#so i have no weed and ive been sober for several days#which is going well!! i cut back so so much and i only smoke at night now!#but anyways rn i have no weed. but i do have a joint box with ample kief#also dont do anything im abt to share#anyways. my ex (ex numb2 not most recent ex) mentioned how i used to smoke tea ciggs as a teen#like id use post it notes and english breakfast teabags and smoke it for WHATEVER reason. it was my way of being edgy#anyways i rolled one of those mf’s tn but i shook the tea around in my kief#i didnt think itd work BUT IT DID#fuckin diy’d that shit w printer paper bc i dont have cones#i have so many chemicals inside of me. but also a lil buzz so its a good time#AGAIN. DONT DO THIS. PLS USE REAL ROLLING PAPERS. OR DONT SMOKE AT ALL THATS EVEN BETTER#weed mention
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Me: uses whatever regular ass sketchbook paper is called to do my fully rendered colour pencil drawings
Sketchbook paper: is known to go on strike if you try to feed it more than like three layers of colouring
Me, unhappy with the saturation and depth of shading on my current work:
#kata's chatter#it doesnt look bad im just not happy with it#next time i do a full thing like this im treating myself to trying it on watercolour paper and we'll see how it goes#it might end up hating the fineliner instead#also what the fuck do you even call normal ass drawing paper in english#not printer paper but yknow. something proper#tho idk the gsm of this bc its not listed anywhere. its a cheap sketchbook. probably not 120g#at least im Guessing bc its thinner than a dipa but also turns out those Also come in different weights so like#fuck if i know#anyway theres too many words for paper and absolutely no consistency#ALSO the actual post: this is not a pencil issue. this is a me and paper issue#my pencils fuck#EDIT: GOOGLING SAYS ITS 170G PAPER?? BRO THAT DONT SOUND RIGHT
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!!!!!!! one of the teachers at camp likes flags!!!!!!!!!! we talked abt them for like 10 minutes
#chuck chatters#she speaks french english and arabic too i love her sm#AND she helped me with the printer bcs i am just a frail boy who doesn’t understand modern tech
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Example of a small minimalist built-in desk carpeted study room design
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Example of a small minimalist built-in desk carpeted study room design
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Example of a small minimalist built-in desk carpeted study room design
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Example of a small minimalist built-in desk carpeted study room design
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