Hi Candice,
I'm enjoying this discussion, being a typo-nut myself. The fleuron
has come to look rather antique these days with respect to poetry,
a hangover from the days of marbled end-papers . . . although
there are some modern examples: W.S. Merwin's 'Second Four
Books of Poems' has a huge beetle-sized fleuron gracing the
spine . . . the title-page of Hill's 'The Triumph of Love' has a little row
of them . . . .
On a related topic, it's only in the past month that I've discovered
that the Perpetua typeface widely used by Faber in the earlier
days was designed by the British artist Eric Gill -- having admired
both the typeface and this artist's work for many years without
making the link.
And 'The Triumph of Love' is also the first book of poems I've
seen for over ten years which uses Perpetua (a backwards nod
to the Faber Eliot maybe?) . . . . last thing I remember buying
in that font was the Greville Press edition of W.S. Graham's
Uncollected Poems . . .
Maybe I should get out more . . . . . .
Andy
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