1Evelyn2108
Hi folks,
Hoping you can help. I’m trying to decide on an edition of Grimm’s. I have a strong preference that illustrations are aligned to the corresponding part of the story.
In the folio Grimm’s, are the pictures aligned with the story? I saw that it’s a 1909 facsimile... but I don’t know anything about the original.
I’m also considering the much cheaper Calla edition, which I saw does have illustrations aligned.
Any insights would be much appreciated!
Evelyn
Hoping you can help. I’m trying to decide on an edition of Grimm’s. I have a strong preference that illustrations are aligned to the corresponding part of the story.
In the folio Grimm’s, are the pictures aligned with the story? I saw that it’s a 1909 facsimile... but I don’t know anything about the original.
I’m also considering the much cheaper Calla edition, which I saw does have illustrations aligned.
Any insights would be much appreciated!
Evelyn
2terebinth
Hello and welcome,
The coloured plates in the Folio Grimm are on a different, glossy, paper, and often printed on both sides of it, so, no, they don't generally appear with the relevant pages of the text. Sometimes the image on one side of a glossy sheet illustrates the previous story, and that on the other refers to a part of the current story but not the part that's on the facing page. It's a lovely book, but with the use of different types of paper there's no way the illustrations and text could match unless every illustration page were printed on one side only and individually bound- or tipped-in as required.
There are also many black and white drawings in the text, and those where possible mostly do accompany the page they illustrate.
The coloured plates in the Folio Grimm are on a different, glossy, paper, and often printed on both sides of it, so, no, they don't generally appear with the relevant pages of the text. Sometimes the image on one side of a glossy sheet illustrates the previous story, and that on the other refers to a part of the current story but not the part that's on the facing page. It's a lovely book, but with the use of different types of paper there's no way the illustrations and text could match unless every illustration page were printed on one side only and individually bound- or tipped-in as required.
There are also many black and white drawings in the text, and those where possible mostly do accompany the page they illustrate.
3Evelyn2108
Oh thank you so much, I thought that might be the case as it’s a facsimile, and what you described seemed the standard for those times. Argh, too bad! It looks so beautiful.
4AnnieMod
>3 Evelyn2108: It is not just these times though - inserting pages on different stock of paper (which is what you usually want for good color illustrations) means either inserting them between the signatures (so they will be away from the text they illustrate) or as >2 terebinth: mentioned, you tip them in in one way or another. It's just a part of the printing process - pages are not printed one by one but in sheets that get folded.
Now - digital printing (or its POD variant anyway) is different but if you want proper books you need to be able to sew something and that kinda requires signatures. Just saying.
Now - digital printing (or its POD variant anyway) is different but if you want proper books you need to be able to sew something and that kinda requires signatures. Just saying.
