#john bell
Caitriona Balfe and Caitlin O’Ryan on John Bell’s TikTok | Outlander BTS
I—canna stay long, Uncle,” Ian said. He looked pale, under the lines of tattooing, but stood erect. “I said they must let
me come to say goodbye.”
Jamie had gone white to the lips.
“Jesus, Ian,” he whispered.
“The naming ceremony is tonight,” Ian said, trying not to look at us. “They say that after that I will be Indian, and I must
not speak any tongue but the Kahnyen’kehaka; I canna speak again in English, or the Gaelic.” He smiled painfully. “And I ken ye didna have much Mohawk.”
“Ian, ye canna be doing this!”
“I’ve done it, Uncle Jamie,” Ian said softly. He looked at me then.
“Auntie. Will ye say to my mother that I willna forget her? My Da will know, I think.”
“Oh, Ian!” I hugged him hard, and his arms went gently around me.
“Ye can leave in the morning,” he said to Jamie. “They willna prevent ye.”
I let him go, and he crossed the hut to where Roger stood, looking stunned. Ian offered him a hand.
“I am sorry for what we did to ye,” he said quietly. “Ye’ll take good care of my cousin and the bairn?”
Roger took his hand and shook it. He cleared his throat and found his voice.
“I will,” he said. “I promise.”
Then Ian turned to Jamie.
“No, Ian,” he said. “God, no, lad. Let it be me!”
Ian smiled, though his eyes were full of tears. “Ye said to me once, that my life wasna meant to be wasted,” he said. “It
won’t be.” He held out his arms. “I willna forget you, either, Uncle Jamie.”
![perdita 2 [the english sappho]‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memo](https://64.media.tumblr.com/d0c9a7a391ce0d909eecdf07d87dbba0/a8d2146c2e8cf3da-7f/s1280x1920/400ee63e8c46c039870c079e7204ba9a3aca9e74.png "perdita 2 [the english sappho]‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memo")
![perdita 2 [the english sappho]‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memo](https://64.media.tumblr.com/10f2933aac11cd01807b62c284f3dc42/a8d2146c2e8cf3da-21/s1280x1920/01f188ea0b7213350f0a6db33beefc4caf02b115.png "perdita 2 [the english sappho]‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memo")
![perdita 2 [the english sappho]‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memo](https://64.media.tumblr.com/9b82f7f77f3b753e2d8a02387a73d1bc/a8d2146c2e8cf3da-0c/s1280x1920/0a304cd3996bba3fc90e0dd237f8ab5bcc6ea49e.png "perdita 2 [the english sappho]‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memo")
![perdita 2 [the english sappho]‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memo](https://64.media.tumblr.com/abd100b4079e82c80138d6ac89003442/a8d2146c2e8cf3da-fc/s1280x1920/8766db76207e1c1fab79635fd5b31bd2fd3bb6ea.png "perdita 2 [the english sappho]‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memo")
perdita 2 [the english sappho]
‹perdita› paid homage to a federal-period title-page of perdita’s memoirs; adding frontispiece of simulated engraving after her portrait by sir john hopper: inspired by the one here illustrated (1st illustration), from Poems by mrs m. robinson (perdita), published by john bell in 1791, frontispiece engraved by thomas burke after the portrait by sir joshua reynolds.
perdita had had an affair with the prince of wales, future george iv; perdita quit the stage for george, but the affair was brief—for some biographical insight vide ‹perdita›. bell’s dedication (2nd illustration) sets the stage for this sweet volume: bell held the royal warrant «bookseller to his royal highness the prince of wales» & the first name on the subscription list (3rd illustration) shows the royal connection remained true, at least, propelling perdita toward a new sobriquet—the english sappho.
inJohn Bell stanley morison gives some description of the book: «The title-pages of volumes forming no part of a series such as the Poems of Perdita carried no device. This volume of Poems is a handsome affair with a fine frontispiece portrait of Mrs Robinson engraved by Burke after Reynolds. The small nondescript ornament on the title-page is, so far as I know, peculiar to the book.» [John Bell, printed for the author at the university press, cambridge, 1930, p113]. after a thorough survey of continental tastes, bell had given impetus to the modern in british typography by commissioning types cut to his specification by richard austin, & establishing the british letter foundry—vide‹the letters of john bell›. but this book is not set in ‘bell’ types, as morison tells us: «If Bell’s repertoire of ornaments and embellishments was simple, so was his collection of types. The ‘Belll’ types were used less for his books than his newspapers. And with reason, for Bell was wedded to the small book and found Fry’s long-primer on a small-pica body most to his taste.» [ibid., p111]. morison refers here to types from the foundry of edmund fry, london, of transitional cut (after the style of baskerville). the 4th illustration shows a complete poem spread—perdita’s homage to goethe’s werther. the illustrations are indicative of bell’s typographical style in book work, showing, in particular, his taste for rules & penchant for setting italic caps.
Post link
