Re: OT: A Note on the Type

[kafkascampi <kafkascampi -at- gmail -dot- com>]

The Knopf edition of Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes had a nice
colophon along with a really nice binding where the pages of the book were
of different widths--now is there a word for that?

Chris

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Janoff, Steve <sjanoff -at- illumina -dot- com> wrote:

> Yes, that was purposeful on Gilman's part.
>
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> "Harmless drudge" is, of course, a nod to Samuel Johnson's 1755
> definition of lexicographer:
>
> 'a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in
> tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.'
>
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>
> This is a nice one, Tammy -- thank you for posting.
>
> Continuing on the topic of front matter, this is one of my favorite
> excerpts from front matter, from the Preface to Merriam-Webster's
> Dictionary of English Usage (that Preface being written by E. Ward
> Gilman, the volume's Editor):
>
> "It is the fate of most of the harmless drudges in the lexicographical
> world to receive their most material tribute in the unread front matter
> of a book.  This time-honored tradition will be continued here."  (He
> then goes on to list the contributors.)
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