Typophile - So I want to buy The Fleuron - Comments

If you can find a full set

James Puckett — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:58:05 -0700

If you can find a full set of The Fleuron for $500, you have found a bargain. Grab it.

I should be so lucky. Unfortunately that’s just what I would expect the minimal cost to be if I buy individual issues in shabby condition.

I want to pick up The

kegler — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:36:17 -0700

I want to pick up The Flueron but don’t really want to spent somewhere between $500 and $1000 to put a set together.

If you can find a full set of The Fleuron for $500, you have found a bargain. Grab it.

correction: I actually have

ryansdaughter — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:27:10 -0700

correction: I actually have a thing called the Fleuron Anthology; selecting v best articles to appear in Fleuron - it is in same format as original - pblsr Univ Toronto Press and Ernest Benn in 1973 and beautifully done in letterpress and offset for the repros... it cost me about £40 some eight years back...un bel objet !

I have an excellent quality

ryansdaughter — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:49:14 -0700

I have an excellent quality reprint (I think) - hardbound - the one with the Beatrice Warde article on Garamont (d) from 1928 and don’t think I paid more than 100 euros at the time maxi. I’ll look it up

There are specialists in typography books of course (Oak Knoll in the US and Wakeman, Collinge and Clark and Barry McKay in the UK etc)... I guess if you look up in ADDALL (amalgam of several sites) you’ll see tons of copies

they are damned heavy so prepare to pay mega postage if you find a set out of the US
and you have to insure as so much gets stolen by the postal services these days (in my experience!)

I got a hard bound edition

Eben Sorkin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:14:17 -0700

I got a hard bound edition of the Fleuron from Inter Library Loan & it was very nicely bound & printed. You might want to get a few from the Library before you plunk down the $. Not because it’s unworthy, it was really really great actually, but just so you have a good idea of what it is & how you feel about it.

So I want to buy The Fleuron

James Puckett — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:05:58 -0700

I want to pick up The Flueron but don’t really want to spent somewhere between $500 and $1000 to put a set together. I’m interested in picking up a reproduction/facsimile. Are some better than others? And is the quality of the reproductions good, or is it on the level of the low-budget Dover stuff?