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Dec. 21st, 2018 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogOne of the books we weeded today is an English language reprint of Cerebri Anatome a 1664 treatise in Latin on neural anatomy by Thomas Willis, considered the father of neurology.
Telling Harry about it, I mentioned that it has illustrations by Sir Christopher Wren. "The architect" he asked? Suddenly it struck me where I knew that name from. He designed some churches, right? I looked him up and remembered the wide range of architectural work he did in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
I hadn't intended to keep the book, but the architectural connection made it rather more tempting! Still, Harry was interested in it and I would have just left it on a shelf, so it'll go with him.
But how nifty a thing a book like that is to come upon!
As a sidenote, the font in the book is gorgeous! It contains curved ligatures between lower case 'st' and 'ct' pairs as well as angled hyphens. The paper is pretty too, yellow and thick and reminsicent of vellum.
The note in the back of the book says that the font is English Monotype Poliphilus with Blado Italic and that it was printed on Curtis Rag paper. It's a pleasure to open and page through.
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And now I've been distracted by reading about typographic ligatures online and trying to write my name with an 'st' ligature.
Telling Harry about it, I mentioned that it has illustrations by Sir Christopher Wren. "The architect" he asked? Suddenly it struck me where I knew that name from. He designed some churches, right? I looked him up and remembered the wide range of architectural work he did in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
I hadn't intended to keep the book, but the architectural connection made it rather more tempting! Still, Harry was interested in it and I would have just left it on a shelf, so it'll go with him.
But how nifty a thing a book like that is to come upon!
As a sidenote, the font in the book is gorgeous! It contains curved ligatures between lower case 'st' and 'ct' pairs as well as angled hyphens. The paper is pretty too, yellow and thick and reminsicent of vellum.
The note in the back of the book says that the font is English Monotype Poliphilus with Blado Italic and that it was printed on Curtis Rag paper. It's a pleasure to open and page through.
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And now I've been distracted by reading about typographic ligatures online and trying to write my name with an 'st' ligature.
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