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1sdawson
I am reading the Heritage Press (later) edition of Poe's 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'. I really like the red text used on each page for the page numbers and story title.
Which other HP or LEC books are printed like this?
Which other HP or LEC books are printed like this?
2scholasticus
The LEC Argonautica does this as well: it has ARGONAUTICA in both English and Greek in red text in the page margins.
3BuzzBuzzard
The LEC Shaving of Shagpat does this as well but in light blue.
4BuzzBuzzard
The HP Confessions of an English Opium Eater runs the tittle and the chapter in red on every page.
5busywine
Allen Press was great at this, believing having at least a couple colors on every page was essential.
6Django6924
Other Devotees have listed above the ones that come immediately to mind, to which I would add perhaps the most striking, the first LEC edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium illustrated with striking mezzotints by Lynd Ward and having one or two drawings in sanguine on the margin of virtually every page (there are a few with none, but I think the total number of marginal drawings equals the page count). I will look through my other books on the Fourth-coming holiday to try to jog my memory of the others.
Added: No sooner had I poste this than I remembered, The Anabasis and The Book of Ecclesiastes.
Added: No sooner had I poste this than I remembered, The Anabasis and The Book of Ecclesiastes.
7Geedge
HPs Essays of Emerson (Book Title plus current essay title in red in margin on each page)
HP Song of Roland has each verse in Roman Numerals in Red on each page of the work itself as opposed to the introduction. The Introduction has red on some pages
HP Lysistrata
HP Ovid - The Art of Love
Petronius - Satyricon
HP Song of Roland has each verse in Roman Numerals in Red on each page of the work itself as opposed to the introduction. The Introduction has red on some pages
HP Lysistrata
HP Ovid - The Art of Love
Petronius - Satyricon
10featherwate
>9 JeromeJ:
These are lovely books. My parents owned a later, 1940s, set by which time they had become the New Temple series, bound in black leather with b&w Eric Gill drawings for the title-pages. No internal colour, sadly (austerity being the watchword of that era), but still stylish. They were my introduction to Shakespeare (and Gill, though his name meant nothing to me at the time); and their pocket size made them ideal for theatre-going trips to Stratford. Thank you for reminding me of them and for the glimpse of the highly covetable set you now have.
These are lovely books. My parents owned a later, 1940s, set by which time they had become the New Temple series, bound in black leather with b&w Eric Gill drawings for the title-pages. No internal colour, sadly (austerity being the watchword of that era), but still stylish. They were my introduction to Shakespeare (and Gill, though his name meant nothing to me at the time); and their pocket size made them ideal for theatre-going trips to Stratford. Thank you for reminding me of them and for the glimpse of the highly covetable set you now have.
11Django6924
More with sanguine on every page: The Circus of Dr. Lao, The Rose and the Ring, Ah, Wilderness!, The Oresteia, and Satyricon (several classical Greek and Roman texts tend to have this feature), and several others that have a different text color than black, such as The Birds, The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and Persuasion, though those aren't red or sanguine.
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