#fournier
time v2
for details of the aphorism vide‹time›.
set in monotype walbaum—for typeface details vide‹time is short, art is long›;with a wreath of digital-reissue ‹fournier’s oblique silhouette flowers›.
translation[mine]:
my inheritance—how glorious, far & wide!
time is my posession :
my field is time.
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b’day elegy
from lord byron’s «Don Juan»: canto 1, stanza 220. set in digital reissue of monotype fournier italic [english monotype 185]; framed with digital reissue of ‹fournier’s oblique silhouette flowers›.
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fournier’s oblique silhouette flowers
first illustration is page 117 from pierre-simon fournier’s seminal Manuel Typographique [tome ii, imprimé par l`auteur, se vend chez barbou, paris, 1766]: vignettes 322-3, the fleuron pair of interest. john ryder tells us: «… because it is cast obliquely on the typebody, is capable of many variations in arrangement. Its immediate origin may be a crude little design of Luce [louis-renè luce, the third royal punch-cutter of the imprimerie royal] but certainly binders’ stamps of a similar kind existed in the sixteenth century.» [john ryder, A Suite of Fleurons, charles t. branford, boston, 1957, p40]. «Fournier’s flowers earned him the admiration of the world.» [ibid., p39].
two formes showing composition with montype’s recuttings of the pair [english monotype 475-6]:
2nd illustration: letterpress on hahnemühle ingres, silver gray;
3rd illustration: letterpress on kitakata.
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for the dictum vide‹& so said claudio acquaviva›. typeset in fournier ornate—for details vide‹dare to know›.
letterpress on rives heavyweight, white.
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