Editing Clues and Conclusions (Bran and Crowe Secondhand Books) (section)

== Printed Ephemera from Hamilton Golding ==

Hamilton Golding has a manuscript codex for sale by auction at Bonham's before Easter. This leaflet has a first draft of a catalogue entry for the lot.
Decoding the abbreviations, the exterior is half hide, metal boards, Folio, with bosses, clasps, and corner-pieces. The interior is vellum folios, manuscript, historiated initials, Latin inscribed in various hands, with a Latin manuscript vellum letter laid inside. It's 500 years old at least.
Oddly, it doesn't say what the contents are, apart from '''historiated''' - decorated with ''histoires'', i.e., figures of men or animals, rather than with floral or formal designs. If it's named like ''Codex Sinaiticus'' that's not mentioned either.
; Document Analysis
: It was typeset and printed on Saturday 17 Mar 1934 by a jobbing printer.
; Occult
: A wishlist of occult codices. Number 1 is reputed to be bound in iron in the lost original. Number 4 is reputed to be bound in steel.
#Book of Iod
#Book of Skelos
#Emerald Tablet
#Firenze Tome
#Ghorl Nigral
#Key Of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis)
#Lesser Key Of Solomon (The Goetia)
#Parchments of Pnom
#Sepher Ha-Zohar (Book Of Splendor)
#Sepher Yetzirah (Book Of Formation)
#Testament of Carnamagos
; Document Analysis
: Typeset in Rockwell, a very new typeface from Monotype released this year. Printed with an Albion hand press. A jobbing printer with a Monotype system and the very latest Monotype matrixes, and an iron hand printing press designed in 1820 but still manufactured today? That's no ordinary jobbing printer.
; Craft (papermaking)
: It's printed on laid (i.e., handmade, chain lines & wire lines) art (i.e., coated, glossy) paper, normally used for expensive limited edition books of etchings or prints.
; Bibliography 1-point spend
: Golding's ephemera was printed by the Fanfare Press in St Martin's Lane, London. They aren't a jobbing printer as such. They do fine printing and advertising work.