LA IMPRESIÓN

A limited miniature edition of a Spanish translation of my own of the essay "Printing" by William Morris & Emery Walker for the Arts & Crafts Exhibition society.

Composed to an A6 trim size with margins following the mediæval canon. Set in 10 pt Adobe Jenson type, making use of discretional ligatures and alternate glyphs, accompanied by a set of antique ornaments digitised from American Type Founders' Cloister Ornaments by Frederic Goudy, and a revival of the matching Cloister Initials by the same designer. Original illustrations in the style of the first publication of the essay.
Bound in blue buckram, with printed reproductions of a marbled endpaper found in an incunabula of the XV century.

For this project I consulted both Longmans Green's edition of "Arts & Crafts Essays", published in London in 1903, and Frederic Goudy's, published in Illinois in the same year, being his inaugural publication when he founded the Village Press.

The text seems to be focused on the greatness of early Venetian type, Nicolas Jenson's 1470 roman perhaps being the most representative. Robert Slimbach's Adobe Jenson is one of the best known revivals and indeed very true to the original, although its default characters for some letters aim to be more familiar in a contemporary context (M, Z), with others closer to Jenson's available as alternate characters — I used these throughout.