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Fancy books
Sep. 3rd, 2018 06:48 pmToday I saw a really fancy bible on the michael moon tumblr
like gilt gauffered edges and leather and clasps and suchlike
so I went looking for more like that only possibly less bible-y
and then I gave up and looked at fancy bibles for a while
and then I wondered, where does the modern buyer go to get a bible that fancy?
and I still don't know, but I spent several hours wondering with a search engine.
Seriously, somewhere has to be filling the niche on Really Super Extra Fancy Books.
It must be I don't know the keywords.
I did, somewhere around, find and bookmark a site that does book props and reckoned it worked on Harry Potter
because that sounds neat.
I don't know how many book prop places there are, that sounds like a productive rabbit hole for another day.
But when I went looking for bibles I just found plain black covers with a cross on them, or possibly a sword.
And compared to the glories you can quite reliably get in the antiquarian section, I'm just wondering, when did church go boring?
Or do I just need other keywords?
Given that I am not myself a Christian this was not entirely helpful
but I have a Thing for teh aesthetic and kind of want a pulpit?
except am aware that is ridiculous.
I saw the other... month when I was castle shopping a library for tens of thousands of books.
So now I sometimes sit here and start thinking how I'd fill it.
You can get 'fine binding' or folio society editions of some books that are downloadable right now, like Pride and Prejudice and so forth. Only a few F&SF books, but some.
Many of the books in the antiquarian bindings are very tedious, because they're things people thought they needed a long lasting reference copy of, not ones they actually wanted to read. If they read them a lot they wouldn't still be around to be in antiquarian book shops.
I mean I'm sure there's exceptions, but, there's a lot of very boring words in quite glorious covers.
Which books would you vote for to get the Super Fancy treatment? Clasps and gold and leather-ish and possibly embossing? Paper that'll be there in four hundred years?
I don't know, far too many possible answers. I'll say Young Wizards but that's cause it was the first thing I saw.
And now I'll get back to reading Provenance, which I bought in paperback last Wednesday and already pages 255 to 265 fell out while I was reading them. I can probably take it back but I'm not due to be physically in the store until Halloween, so, bit tricky. But the whole thing with the difference between the book and the physical presence of the book is a very Provenance idea, so far.
like gilt gauffered edges and leather and clasps and suchlike
so I went looking for more like that only possibly less bible-y
and then I gave up and looked at fancy bibles for a while
and then I wondered, where does the modern buyer go to get a bible that fancy?
and I still don't know, but I spent several hours wondering with a search engine.
Seriously, somewhere has to be filling the niche on Really Super Extra Fancy Books.
It must be I don't know the keywords.
I did, somewhere around, find and bookmark a site that does book props and reckoned it worked on Harry Potter
because that sounds neat.
I don't know how many book prop places there are, that sounds like a productive rabbit hole for another day.
But when I went looking for bibles I just found plain black covers with a cross on them, or possibly a sword.
And compared to the glories you can quite reliably get in the antiquarian section, I'm just wondering, when did church go boring?
Or do I just need other keywords?
Given that I am not myself a Christian this was not entirely helpful
but I have a Thing for teh aesthetic and kind of want a pulpit?
except am aware that is ridiculous.
I saw the other... month when I was castle shopping a library for tens of thousands of books.
So now I sometimes sit here and start thinking how I'd fill it.
You can get 'fine binding' or folio society editions of some books that are downloadable right now, like Pride and Prejudice and so forth. Only a few F&SF books, but some.
Many of the books in the antiquarian bindings are very tedious, because they're things people thought they needed a long lasting reference copy of, not ones they actually wanted to read. If they read them a lot they wouldn't still be around to be in antiquarian book shops.
I mean I'm sure there's exceptions, but, there's a lot of very boring words in quite glorious covers.
Which books would you vote for to get the Super Fancy treatment? Clasps and gold and leather-ish and possibly embossing? Paper that'll be there in four hundred years?
I don't know, far too many possible answers. I'll say Young Wizards but that's cause it was the first thing I saw.
And now I'll get back to reading Provenance, which I bought in paperback last Wednesday and already pages 255 to 265 fell out while I was reading them. I can probably take it back but I'm not due to be physically in the store until Halloween, so, bit tricky. But the whole thing with the difference between the book and the physical presence of the book is a very Provenance idea, so far.