by Ian Sansom
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A NOTE ON THE TYPEFACES
The main typeface is ITC Giovanni book, designed by Robert Slimbach and released by the International Typeface Corporation in 1989. Based on the classic old-style humanist faces, especially that of Nicolas Jenson who was one of the first to break away from Gutenberg’s “black face.” Characterized by Jenson’s diagonal bar to the lower case “e” but is a rounder, more refined letter than his, with proportionally larger x height, and more balanced weight of stroke for present-day lithographic and digital printing.
Headings and captions are set in Bembo, a twentieth-century reworking of the classic humanist face cut by Francesco Griffo and first printed by the Venetian, Aldus Manutius, in 1496. Classic proportions and good legibility have made this the mainstay of book printing and the benchmark for classic typeface design for five hundred years. Reworked by the Monotype Corporation for Monotype hot-metal printing in the early twentieth century and then again for lithographic and digital printing for the present.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ian Sansom’s books include The Truth About Babies, Ring Road, and the popular Mobile Library series of novels. He lives in Ireland.
ALSO BY IAN SANSOM
The Truth About Babies
Ring Road
The Mobile Library: Mr. Dixon Disappears
The Mobile Library: The Delegates’ Choice
The Enthusiast Almanack (with David Herd)
The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry (with David Herd)
The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books
The Mobile Library: The Bad Book Affair
CREDITS
All illustrations not credited are either privately owned or out of copyright, or copyright has not been traceable.
Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2012
COPYRIGHT
Extract from “Letter to a Harsh Critic” in Negotiations by Gilles Deleuze, trans. Martin Joughin, © 1997 Columbia University Press, reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Extract from Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, trans. Wade Baskin, © 2011 Columbia University Press, reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Extract from The Paper House by Carlos Maria Dominguez, published by Harvill Secker, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
Extract from Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, © 2003 by Anna Funder, reprinted by permission of Granta Books.
Extract from The Truce: A Survivor’s Journey Home from Auschwitz by Primo Levi, published by Bodley Head, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
Extract from The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, published by Harvill Press, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
Extract from The Double Helix by James Watson, reprinted by permission of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London.
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First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, London.
FIRST U.S. EDITION
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