{"id":396,"date":"2020-01-09T16:41:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/?page_id=396"},"modified":"2020-01-09T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:41:05","slug":"blackmore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/home\/part-one\/blackmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackmore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fringilla<\/em>, a collection of verse by the English novelist R. D. Blackmore, was printed in America in a limited edition of 630 copies. Bradley designed the cover, title page, ornaments, and illustrations. He selected the typeface, arranged the page layouts, and supervised production from start to finish. The&nbsp;<em>Book Buyer<\/em>&nbsp;praised the volume as Bradley\u2019s \u201cmost complete and perfect production\u201d to date. Blackmore, though, was less impressed and found himself at odds with both of his publishers throughout the entire production. In one letter, Blackmore referred to&nbsp;<em>Fringilla<\/em>&nbsp;as \u201cthat miserable book, the most absurd and hideous thing ever seen.\u201d He disliked Bradley\u2019s style as a whole, and issued venomous complaints about all aspects of Bradley\u2019s art. Blackmore was also disappointed that his book was taking a form that seemed, to his mind, primarily intended to please collectors. And he also noted textual faults in the American edition: Bradley\u2019s text arrangements had transformed his verse into prose, thereby destroying the rhythm of what had once been carefully chosen stanza forms. When the publisher requested that he sign fifty copies, Blackmore flat-out refused, \u201clest it should appear I am an accomplice in the two barbarities of putting slate-scrawls for pictures, and printing verse as prose.\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00a0[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The English edition of&nbsp;<em>Fringilla<\/em>, published simultaneously with the American edition, was illustrated and designed by Louis Fairfax Muckley. Comparing the two shows some of the differences in styles employed for the American and English markets. Blackmore hated this version as well. As with Bradley\u2019s work, Blackmore disliked Muckley\u2019s artistic style, and apparently would have preferred a more realistic design. The English version did, though, retain Blackmore\u2019s verse structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher\u2019s Prospectus for&nbsp;<em>Fringilla<\/em>. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers, 1895.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prospectus for&nbsp;<em>Fringilla<\/em>&nbsp;includes a reproduction of a poster that Bradley designed to accompany the book\u2019s release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Fringilla, a collection of verse by the English novelist R. D. Blackmore, was printed in America in a limited edition of 630 copies. Bradley designed the cover, title page, ornaments, and illustrations. He selected the typeface, arranged the page layouts, and supervised production from start to finish. The&nbsp;Book Buyer&nbsp;praised the volume as Bradley\u2019s \u201cmost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":363,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions\/398"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/will-bradley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}