In meinem letzten Blogbeitrag schrieb ich u.a. von Faksimiles. Ich möchte die Gelegenheit nutzen, eine etwas weniger häufige Variante vorzustellen: „type-facsimiles“, also den zeilengenauen Neusatz eines Werkes in einer dem Original möglichst nahekommenden Type.
Als Beispiel möge Shelley: „Alastor“ in der Erstausgabe und drei späteren Drucken dienen.
Bitte beachten Sie die minimalen Unterschiede in den Zeilenlängen der Verse.
Shelley: Alastor. Erstdruck, 1816.
Shelley: Alastor. Dobell, 1885.
Shelley: Alastor. Dobell / Shelley Society, 1886.
Kein Faksimiledruck:
Shelley: Alastor. Forman, 1876.
Bibliographische Information:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and Carpenter and Son: By S. Hamilton, Weybridge, 1816. Small octavo. ca. 165 x 102 mm. vi, [1], [1 blank], 101, [3 blank] pp. Printed on wove paper with the watermark “J Whatman”.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Dobell, Bertram (editor): Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems. A Facsimile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1816. London: Chiswick Press for Reeves and Turner and R. Dobell, 1885. Octavo. ca. 174 x 107 mm. viii pp. [Prefatory Note] – Facsimile: vi, [1], [1 blank], 101, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. One of 50 copies printed on Whatman’s Hand-made (wove) Paper of a total edition of 404 copies.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Dobell, Bertram (editor): Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems. A Facsimile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1816. London: Chiswick Press for Reeves and Turner and R. Dobell, 1885. [On upper cover: 1886]. Octavo. ca. 173 x 108 mm. viii pp. [Prefatory Note] – Facsimile: vi, [1], [1 blank], 101, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. One of 350 copies printed on toned paper of a total edition of 404 copies. Some copies were purchased by the Shelley Society from Bertram Dobell, and were put up in the Society’s covers and distributed to the members.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Forman, Harry Buxton (editor): Alastor; or the Spirit of Solitude, &c. Edited, with notes, by H. Buxton Forman, and printed for private distribution. MDCCCLXXVI. London: Privately Printed, 1876. Octavo. ca. 225 x 141 mm. 62, [2 blank] pp. One of 25 copies printed on handmade paper “J. Whatman 1876”, of a total edition of 80 copies.
