#chapter headers

[tsubaki94]

I just felt like posting all the Page 0/ Chapter header art.

I forgot I used that font on ch 3 & 4.

Bonus:

[thefugitivesaint]

Robert Lawson (1892-1957), ''The Wee Men of Ballywooden'' by Arthur Mason, 1937

[zhalfirin-binds]

Details of my bind of L'Esprit de L'Escalier

This was a rather quick and fun bind of a different take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice by Catherynne M. Valente. In this one Orpheus succeeds to bring Eurydice back to the land of the living.

I like how the covers turned out. It's just the title over and over again and in hindsight I like the backside a little better than the front (naturally).

The technique for both sides was stamping the title with brass letters and heated blocking press wherever I felt like it. I tried it blind tooled first, but that barely showed so I went for a white foil instead If you look closely you can see that one cover has been tooled first white then black and the other first black and then white. Both has nice effects, but I find the black over white is easier to read. Another thing I'd do differently the next time is the time when I hot stamp. This time I had the case completely finished. Tooling would have been a lot easier (and adjustable) if I had tooled that cardboard ahead, cut it to size and glued on after that.

Another thing that I noticed is that the boards warp slightly. Out of the 2 options it could warp, this is the favourable one. I'd still rather have it not warp at all. I know the one-sided pasting of (end) papers causes it, but I'm not yet sure how to oppose it. Perhaps the sequence of what is glued to what makes a difference. I shall mark down what exactly I did the next time. Perhaps working from the inside out and letting each of the layers stretch and relax before laminating them on might work.

Speaking of layers. I like how that worked out a lot. 3 layers of board, grey-blue-grey, perhaps red would have been a better choice, seeing how that pops out, but I didn't have a nice red the same shade as the cloth (just as I did not have a blue the shade of the blue board) and I wanted something blue again to take up the colouring of the chapter headers.

For the chapter headers I picked up the idea of steps, first I thought stairs. Following the many pictures of the myth that show Orpheus and Eurydice on their way out of the Underworld. This story is more about how both grow apart though, so I went for a picture to reflect that.

[heartintherye]

I was this far into the book when I realized the little suns next to the chapter headers change colors according to the pov

light for Will and dark for Nico

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday! 

This week we bring you, Lucifer, a poem by English philosopher, novelist, and poet, John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), with illustrated headers by Scottish wood engraver, illustrator, and painter, Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980), and  published in London by Macdonald & Company in 1956 in an edition 560 copies signed by the author. The poem is written from the perspective of Lucifer himself as he contemplates his fall from Heaven which was caused by his own arrogance. 

Agnes Miller Parker created six small wood engravings as headers to each of the six parts of the poem. The impressive linework and the amount of narrative packed into these small prints speak to the artist’s great skill in the medium.  This book was made and printed in Great Britain by Purnell and Sons, and is quarter bound in blue leather with light-blue book cloth over boards and gold foil-stamped spine title and floral design on the front cover. 

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– Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern.

[by--a--whisker]

Chapter title edits II

fic’s on Ao3

[caffeinial]

Hymn, Effort, and Timing [SPOILER WARNING] the headers for the last three chapters of Straight to Video, the second book of Strong Hearts Are Mandatory!

Book 1 amzn.to/2qnqAY7 Book 2 amzn.to/2qkbOjI (where this is found!)

[by--a--whisker]

Chapter header edits VI