The Indexer1 is a professional journal published since 1958 by the Society of Indexers.2 The first two issues3 contained a feature titled “No index—no comment,”4 which listed recently published books that did not have an index. The quote at the start of the feature, from one Richard G. Lillard, reads, “By and large the presence Read more
Charles Estienne (1504-1564) was a French printer and anatomist who in 1545 printed one of the first anatomies to include illustrations1. This book, De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (On dissection of the human body), includes 62 full-page woodcuts printed from 56 woodblocks, each receiving from the start attention for their eroticism and novel Read more
After finishing Brunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King’s book on the apex of architectural and engineering innovation during the Italian Renaissance, I flipped to the copyright page and noticed, near the very bottom, the following sentence: Set in Bembo I noticed too that the sentence is un-punctuated, which did not strike me as exceptionally odd—especially after checking at Read more