Why There Are Pages And Why They Must Turn
CODE(X) + 1 Monograph Number One
By Robert Bringhurst
Berkeley, California: CODEX Foundation, 2008. Edition of 500.
5.5 x 7.75"; 16 pages. Printed on an old Heidelberg cylinder press at Peter Koch, Printers by Peter Koch, Jonathan Gerken, and Shanna Mahan. Typeface: Quadraat ("well suited for feuilleton editions printed in relative haste"). Cover printed from antique wood and metal types in the Koch collection. Pamphlet bound.
Canadian Robert Bringhurst is a philosopher, poet, linguist, and typographer.
"Why There Are Pages and Why They Must Turn" is adapted from The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada, published in fall 2008 by CCSP Press (the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing Press) at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver."
Robert Bringhurst: "In cultures possessing fluent scripts, paper, and printing, books have acquired a stable material form. Those quiet, reliable, portable, legible objects are the benchmark incarnation of the book for most of us now, yet we know that, to be real, a book must be more than a physical object. What makes the tangible form of a book rewarding is that it stands for an intangible reality alive in the heart and mind.”
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