ATD sale date: strict guidances (globally?)

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: "David Casseres" <david.casseres at gmail.com>

[...]

>The pages are very attractive, nice paper with the text set in what
>looks to me like Baskerville, but I'm no expert.  The leading is
>generous (even more than in Mason & Dixon) and the letter-spacing is
>wider than you usually see with Baskerville.  If it is Baskerville.
>The type is small, so that even with all the leading and
>letter-spacing there are plenty of words on the page, never fear.
>
>There's no colophon to tell me about the type. But the book designers
>are identified as Claire Vaccaro and Amanda Dewey, and I'd say they
>did a very nice job.

Thanks for a very nice description of the book. The type, incidentally, IS 
Baskerville - when I'm in doubt, I always visit this useful site:

http://www.linotype.com/fontidentifier.html

Interestingly, AtD is the first of Pynchon's novels where the typeface isn't 
matched to the period of the book: V. and Lot 49 were both set in Electra, 
William A. Dwiggins' typeface from the mid-twentieth century, and GR was set 
in Caledonia, another Dwiggins' typeface (from 1939). Vineland was set in 
Sabon, a typeface from the 1960'es, and M&D was set in Bodoni, a type which 
at least in name and inspiration harks back to the 18th century. So in a 
sense, with Pynchon's first five novels, the typeface more or less 
corresponded to the period described in the novel.
AtD departs from this tendency, since Baskerville was designed in 1750.
BTW, I wonder what Penguin will do when the novel is eventually released in 
paperback. The type is, as you point out, very small, and if it got any 
smaller, as in a smaller paperback with the same page layout, my eyes would 
certainly be taxed to the limit.

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