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    v BOOKSELLERS IN THE COLONIES. Following...

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    TYPOGRAPHY OLD AND NJEW. The following i...

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    Grievances Of Retail Newsagents.

    their views in this matter which is of so much importance remain to the retailers dear Sir . Thanking you in

    advance ^ rcnnfl . , 1 T remain , , dear sir . , yours voura raitntuiiy faithfully ., Geo . Baxey . 21 Bridge StreetSouthampton .

    A * - *~— — ^ Sept . 5 , 1890 , . JL , ¦ ¦

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    Sept . 15 , 1890 The Publishers' Circular I 12 I

    V Booksellers In The Colonies. Following...

    v BOOKSELLERS IN THE COLONIES . Following the example recently set by the

    trade of __ _ Victoria in London ¦ Australia , the booksellers have decided and stationers to form

    an association X V ^ ** ^ - ^ * ^**~ J , for the , protection of their l interests llV ^ - ' ' X * »» - » **» w . » We — take the following QJ rep ort of a

    preliminary the Argus VVf of — — meeting August , 1 held : — in Melbourne , from

    l ^ l ^ V ^ , j £ .. J » , * - * - —I sellers _ _^^^^ A meeting * and ^ V- *^ - * - ^ stationers ** + " ** of ¦*¦ " "' — —— wholesal — - ^ — ¦ was e and held . __ _ retail last _ book ni _ . _^ ht - ^ Brothers g

    at Messrs . Petherick ' warehouse , Bourke f F \ l V * M . *^ -- * mS ¦ Street * - -r— — — — , ¦ Mr . M . L . Hutchinson being ^ J

    the in % the interests chair , at of which the trade it ..- was it resolved was desirable that , to in

    form ^ ^ ^\_ J JL *¦ * an ** ^^ ^^ assoc " * ^ ^^ ^ iation — , to be , called the Booksel \ j lers \ S JL and ¦• - — Stationers' Association of Victoria .

    Mr ^ - | J ^ . * A J * . ^» F- » ¦• G . r- « wr- w Melville —— — — , of Messrs . Melville , Mullen ^ . f . JL \^ A A % ¦» » » & ^¦^ ' Slade - ¦¦—«¦ — —— —— — , -j urged j ^^ — that such an

    association should be formed to have regard to future leg of islation an amended . He thoug Copyri ht g f there ht Act was which much need the

    \ S M . % ^ I * . M . » . » — —— -w — — — — — — - . - m —j , association as a body might be the means of securing m ^ s v *•» *¦ * •—»» . He — ¦»¦ also —— — — thoug — j ^ j ht that emp ^ loyes ^ j

    should be allowed to join the association . Mr . Hutchinson said that one of the objects

    of the association ought to be to keep the class of literature before the public .

    T purer he freight by the mail steamers was excessive , and 14 IA 41 ^/^ the ^ p * * ^^ r association ^* W »* rf v ^^ ^ - ^ ^ " ^ ** w V ^ ^^ ^^ — ^— mi - < g ™ ^ ht - — — be — the ___ — mean _ _ _ . s . of

    having it reduced . He also thought that there should be a common publishing day for

    of ma 1878 gazines had sent been out the here means . The of old securing association the

    postal A motion reform , . That employes be represented

    as may afterwards be determined / was carried unanimousland a provisional committee of

    s-fe A y , m » TTTTT m presiden fifteen was t . elected Mr _ . _ W , . with . Detmold _ Mr ^ ^ " . Hutchinson , of ^ Flinders as

    time Lane , being offered kk whic a room h was at »™ his gladl warehouse y accepted 1 for . the A

    vote of r ** s - *— thanks r «^ «* ^ m , * T . ¦ was ^ "v ^^ ** « w passed * * '"^ £ ^ | to —^ ^— Messrs / . Petherick ^^^—Brothers for the use of the roomand one

    also to the chairman . ,

    Typography Old And Njew. The Following I...

    TYPOGRAPHY OLD AND NJEW . The following is from an

    exceedinlintergy es wie the ting Society { Socititv paper of of read Arts Aria by , Mr and and . Talbot reported renorted B . Reed at at length lencrth before in in

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    bailed Didot to between do Bodoni them killed achieved . the , old and st leand and loft us The our epoch modern which Roman ensued . y ing , the

    as tot the half Roman of the character present is century concerned , occupy , was an , so epoch far

    w ° f hich respectable preceded commonp it . it lace ended . But better unlike , than epochfl it

    " © gan . The new Roman was barely

    established taste for as the fatter prevailing —¦ faces ¦ - ¦ asserted fashion ++ , when itself a vul The gar 41

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    the and ana way about aoout . Others 1820 i » zu . or or outstri rather rather , pped before before him in a a the face far »« race like IiIta ;

    that before you , was both fash , ionable and popular jm m for certain - - - — — — works - - - ^ ^ v — v ** v ^ . ^ As ^ —| r , _| - a WV ^ foil » ^^ ^ k 4 & to ¦ J » |^ this ^ J ^^ J ^^

    began exaggerated to appear fatness in , forms the new of extraordinary Roman face leanness and compression —¦ ¦*¦ ab of % ^ « which A ^^ a specimen

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    _ j ^_ — » *«* vaV ** V « , »^ p B ^ y W the represented tendency a to reactionary lighten and movement refine the Bodoni against

    Roman to forms of excessive fineness . The rise of the newspaper and the

    introduction of steam machinery press , made , it necessary to cast types in much harder metal than

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    the most serifs delicate and treatment fine lines and were ¦ the capable founders of the of

    sharpest the day and entered finest on of -v —— effects a , — w competition «« . » It *^ also a ^^ ^ - » ^^ came for ^^«^^ Jh HmT the to «_^^

    be could a be consideration " got in" in a with line printers and the compositors how much ' «

    tariff began to exercise considerable , influence on the style of the Roman letter . A tendency

    developed founders w itself to condense , particularl the y among « letter f b the after Scotc the bh h , — — — — ^^ ^ ^ " ^™ ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^* ^^ w ^ fe ^ # ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ a ^

    achieved French sty considerable le , and the Scotch favour letter . It in was its neat day

    and siderab clear ly founders more and than delicate the , ordinary and * got sty in le . * con The

    -English Hjnglisn founders , , however however , , resisted resisted the th « innova innova--tion , and adhered to the rounder forms as more readable and better calculated to retain their

    clearness sents several . The of the specimen most familiar before varieties you repre of

    the ever modern , the main Roman ambition . Clearness of the punch was not -cutters , how- .

    The some app of lause the besto London wed on printers the productions about 1820 of , notabl notablv y those those or of the the JtJulmer Bulmflr nrp » a fired fir « rl their t . hfiir

    prided emulation themselves to dazzle on the the exquisite public press , eye fineness . They of

    c their urves hair » the lines crescendos , the - and graceful - diminuendos - - > sweep »» -V of of their their — , — — ^ . ^ . — , _ ^ . * ¦ _ — * ^ ^ " *^ . ^ ^^ ^^^ " ^^ ^ PB ^^ ^^ P ^ ^^ ^^ 1 . ^

    round letters . But all the while they were drifting -- jpK away - m from - - the canons - —» p- ^ v of easy f legibility « Pj H iP H . V

    to It may be _ dazzled ^ be a pleasan but - - — t sensa — the - —™—™ n majority - ^ t ^^ ion ^^ ^^^ . p t o «^ ^^ some V ^^ W of ^ V ^ . P' V ^ readers ^ p F ^ ^ eo ^^ ^ p le

    prefer more homel , ¥ — y and ^ , , __^ restful , , ^^ ^^ ^^ PI ^^ ^ 1 ^ ^^ ^ V effe W ^^ i c «^ ts ^^ . "P ^ PV ^^ p * ' ^ The P' ^ Pl ' ^ P ^ ^^ ¦ W old artists of the classical school were never

    sponsible egotists . for Egotism many ¦ has of the been ¦ defects —* and remains of i 4 modern i re- pipt

    typograp ^ 4 We — h come y . finall — y to our ^» ^^^ " ^« last ^^^ r ^ . pF ^ P" p ^^ p epoch ^^ pV ^^ ™* P 1 ^ — ^^^ ^^ . P * ^ the . P" m ^ rm pi ^

    present . It was , ushered , in , about 1845 , by the — - revival - — -- — — — , ^ under — — -- — — - the — ^^ ausp - ^ b ^_ ^^ - ^ -w- ^ v vv ^ ices * ^^^ - ^^^ v ^ r o ^^^ pi f " ^ Mr p ^^^^ . ^ . ^ p p . ^ . ^ r Whit w p ^ p . ^"" ¦ ¦¦ ^» - ^ -

    tingham , of the Caslon old face . The old master , w thoug ^ m ht to be — dead ^^ ~^ ~~ ^ ~— —^ and ^^ ^ ™ ¦ - *^ m —~^^ ¦ buried ^^ ™ ¦¦ ^ i i ¦ ¦ ^^ - ^ ^^ ™ , ^ p s » ^ r ^ prang p » ' ^ - ¦ p ^^ " ^^ - " ^ p ^ p ^ k

    again to life as potent as ever . I need scarcely remind you of the result of this revival both at home and abroad . Side by

    side with the new and improving Romans of the letter-founders appeared fronts cut after the antiquewith all the superior finish of

    modern workmanshi , p . Founders did not

    venture in their reproductions to copy all the m

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 15, 1890, page 1121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15091890/page/13/