book marked

S’hhh?
S’and?
S’from?
Drop Cap issues.

I near­ly dropped the book when I saw this. 

The Barnes & No­ble Col­lectible Edi­tions have love­ly cov­ers and ugly type­set­ting issues.

I own three.

I may re­turn one. I’m torn. This may be a deal breaker.

They ap­pear to be repack­aged copies of CML (Clas­sics of Mod­ern Lit­er­a­ture) books with more or­nate cov­ers for spe­cial markets. 

Stan­dard CM­L’s are cheap (around $2–5). The type­set­ting be­tween both vol­umes are iden­ti­cal across mul­ti­ple ti­tles. Es­sen­tial­ly, you’re pay­ing for a fan­cy textbook.

As for the type­set­ting with­in, we’re talk­ing year one graph­ic de­sign stu­dent type; it’s a rush job that looks like glo­ri­fied place­hold­er text. 

Drop Caps are not ad­just­ed and grids are im­pro­vised. The mar­gins are claustrophobic. 

That be­ing said, the cov­ers are still im­pres­sive and the gold leaf­ing is gor­geous. No­table il­lus­tra­tors and de­sign­ers made the cov­ers and for­ward matter. 

Though fair warn­ing: The col­or on the cov­ers rub off dur­ing shelf wear. Let these vol­umes ‘breathe’ on your shelf if you can.

Ex­tra points for hon­or­ing the tra­di­tion of Il­lus­trat­ed Man­u­scripts though.

But all said, af­ter pe­rus­ing through sev­er­al, Barnes & No­ble Col­lectible Edi­tions are a sol­id B-. Was hop­ing for the craft in­side to match the outerwear.
 
 

—louis her­nan­dez

Flom­mist Louis Her­dan­dez is ob­sessed with go­ing Bauhaus and be­com­ing The Ma­chine. Prefer­ably a drill press. Copy­right © 2017 Louis Her­nan­dez. Bot­tom im­age source.

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