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[virushoney]

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[tomhiddleslove]

film_chippy_automotive_lover on IG:

" Last week we said goodbye to our lead actor Tom Hiddleston #filming #loki "

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, January 10 in 1812, the first steamboat on Western waters in the United States arrived in New Orleans from Pittsburgh after an 82-day maiden voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. In commemoration of this momentous journey, we present a few steamboat images from Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi, published in 1944 by Limited Editions Club (LEC) under the direction of George Macy in a limited edition of 1200 copies signed by illustrator, the noted American Regionalist artist Thomas Hart Benton. Benton had already contributed illustrations for LEC’s editions of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but Life on the Mississippi marked the first occasion Mr. Benton’s illustrations appeared in color. The book was designed by Will Ransom, composed by The Stratford Press and printed by William Edwin Rudge’s Sons in Caledonia type to evoke “the ‘period flavor’ of the nineteenth century.”

The steamboat on the Mississippi was a joint business venture between Robert Fulton, Robert R. Livingston, and Nicholas Roosevelt. Christened the New Orleans, it had an easy voyage down the Ohio River, but the famous New Madrid earthquake, on December 16 of 1811, altered the Mississippi’s topography enough to make the make the remainder of the journey perilous. The New Orleans soldiered on and reached its destination, ushering a new era in Western and mid-Continental commerce. Commercial steamboat navigation would go on to provide fertile creative grounds for a boy named Samuel Clemens born some twenty years later—“mark twain” being the leadsman’s cry indicating a safe depth for passage.

Also tucked safely into our copy of Life on the Mississippi is a program from a 1959 production of American actor Hal Holbrook’s “Mark Twain Tonight!” at Milwaukee’s Riverside Theatre. Holbrook went on to win a Tony Award for his portrayal of Twain, a role that he embodied for over 60 years.

View more posts on the Limited Editions Club here.

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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[jamesbuchananbarnesslut]

Monster Hunter Series

Master List

Summary: Will Ransome, a vicar, is struggling to convince his small town that monsters and myths aren’t real, that is until you roll into town. 

Synopsis: The year was 1893 in Aldwinter Essex and William Ransome, vicar, has been battling with his towns people and the myth of monsters. Especially, after strange things keep happening in town, most recently an earthquake and even children and locals reporting the sighting of a blackwater beast. Although Will, himself doesn't believe in monsters he's been struggling to convince the town people otherwise. The problem further escalates when men of the town all begin having similar dreams and describe the same woman appearing in them. After each person has these dreams, they seem to be weaker either physically or mentally and, in most cases, have been found dead. The dreams also only started occurring after a new spinster named Y/N moved in on the outskirts of town. With all the increasing rumors, Will is forced to step in and begin to decipher what's happening especially whether he believes these things are real.  

Warnings: smut, fingering, P in the V (so far)

Chapter 1 

Chapter 2 (upcoming)

[jamesbuchananbarnesslut]

Will Ransome

Master List

Series

Monster Hunter - Series Summary: Will Ransome, a vicar, is struggling to convince his small town that monsters and myths aren’t real, that is until you roll into town.

Warnings: smut, fingering and P in the V (so far) 

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

On this first #Typography Tuesday of the year, we begin the New Year with American printer and type designer Frederic Goudy’s Goudy Thirty font. Designed between 1942 and 1945, this was the last typeface Goudy designed before his death in 1947. In fact, the design was commissioned by Lanston Monotype to be used only after Goudy’s passing as a way to commemorate him. The typeface, a “Gothicized” Roman, was not produced until 1953 and was never commercially successful, but many private press printers seem to have taken a shine to it, and it is currently available as a digital font through P22 Type Foundry. Why is it named “Thirty”? Apparently, “thirty” is a newspaper trade term that signifies “end of story.” As Alexander Lawson, a long-time professor of Graphic Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), wrote in his essay on Goudy Thirty, “Anatomy of a Type,”

Now, after five centuries, we may have come to the end of he road as far as the design of new metal types is concerned, It is fitting that the last font of America’s great type designer is a letter in the spirit of the 15th century, a period which he loved so well and to which he returned for inspiration in so many of his types.

The images presented here are from the fine-press publication A Goudy Memoir: Essays by and about America’s Great Type Designer Frederic W. Goudy, printed in 1987 at the Yellow Barn Press in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in an edition of 150 copies. The Goudy Thirty type display above was set at Mackenzie & Harris in San Francisco, while Goudy’s statement “The Type Speaks” was handset in 18 point Goudy Thirty by Yellow Barn’s proprietor Neil Shaver, and hand-printed by him on dampened Rives paper on a Vandercook Universal III. The titling is set in Goudy Text, a Gothic typeface Goudy designed in 1928 based on the types used in Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible of 1454/55. The large initial that begins the statement was drawn by Goudy in 1932 for a Christmas card he issued that year. The Arts and Crafts-style pressmark is that of Goudy’s own Village Press, which he founded with his wife Bertha and American designer Will Ransom and ran from 1903 to 1939. The frontispiece photo of Goudy at the press was provided to Shaver by RIT.

View other works printed by Neil Shaver at the Yellow Barn Press.

View our other posts that feature types by Fred Goudy.

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[kneamet]

i'm very stupid, because i just realized that brendan lynch should have been added to the list of ewan's characters, and will ransom should have been added to the list of tom's characters