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Searching The Stacks
May. 10th, 2024 12:04 pm I was going to read The Charterhouse of Parma next but I'm into Sterne now and Stendhal will have to wait until I've re-read Tristram Shandy. I went to Camilla's yesterday and searched through her stacks. There was no shortage of Shandy's but I rejected three before I found the one I wanted.
1. Had a plastic cover pretending to be leather- I think the stuff is called skivertex- it had a vogue in the 70s- and I deplore it.
2. Wasn't bad but had leaves coming loose.
3. Was a Everyman pocket edition. Nothing wrong with Everyman editions, but of course the print is small and with a text as dense and complicated as Shandy you really want all the help you can get- and a large friendly type is desirable....
The fourth- which I bought- was lying on its side on top of properly shelved books and I overlooked it at first. It's a Folio edition- and handsome as Folio books always are. Folio editions can be a bit precious- aimed at the displayer rather than the reader- but this is perfectly decent and has woodcut illustrations- by John Lawrence- in the Hogarth tradition....
1. Had a plastic cover pretending to be leather- I think the stuff is called skivertex- it had a vogue in the 70s- and I deplore it.
2. Wasn't bad but had leaves coming loose.
3. Was a Everyman pocket edition. Nothing wrong with Everyman editions, but of course the print is small and with a text as dense and complicated as Shandy you really want all the help you can get- and a large friendly type is desirable....
The fourth- which I bought- was lying on its side on top of properly shelved books and I overlooked it at first. It's a Folio edition- and handsome as Folio books always are. Folio editions can be a bit precious- aimed at the displayer rather than the reader- but this is perfectly decent and has woodcut illustrations- by John Lawrence- in the Hogarth tradition....
