Mandate romanhands Michael Bracewell

Michael Bracewell

and violence

it’s been just one day since a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer sold at auction for $140k

there are digital equivalents that will keep this book relevant for a long time

was later revised and expanded

Mandate romanhands Michael BracewellWhen one works on books about slabs, stencils, shadows, and scripts, one needs a lot of examples around. Like, when Louise Fili was working on Scripts, she picked up this specimen of Robert Hunter Middletons Mandate. It reminds us of a vanilla milkshake. (Man. Could we go for a vanilla milkshake right now.) Not a pretty specimen, but that makes sense: Ludlow faces werent pretty. They were workhorses. That this is from the collection of Louise Fili