Pictionary
Found this over on Michael’s blog. The Boston Globe has a story about a $2,600 dictionary with no definitions, only reprinted engravings from the first illustrated dictionary in America, Merriam-Webster’s 1859 American Dictionary of the English Language, hand-printed by Johnny Carrera. FTA:
Carrera found the original engravings - more than 12,000 - at the Sterling Library at Yale, and then spent 12-hour days organizing and cleaning them. He set and printed them by hand, 16 pages at a time, on a letterpress. The book’s pages are hand-sewn; the indented thumb tabs on the page edges are cut by hand as well. The label on the spine is printed with gold leaf. Carrera’s process, laborious and painstaking, gives you the feeling it could have been just as well accomplished by candlelight.
The article quotes Noah Webster himself saying that illustrated dictionaries “have very much promoted superficial learning.” That’s funny, because I’m pretty sure print dictionaries have very much promoted a superficial understanding of language. Oh, in your face, Webster!
Thu., May. 15, 2008
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