The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated by Allen Mandelbaum
Contributed by John Butler
on Dec 4th, 2020. Artwork published in
circa 1993
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Photo: John Butler. License: All Rights Reserved.
Letterspaced Centaur on the dust jacket.
This 1993 translation of Ovid is luxuriously large, as is the type: 559 pages in what looks like fourteen point Bembo. Many regard the digital Bembo from that era too thin for text, but at this size it feels perfect.
Photo: John Butler. License: All Rights Reserved.
Photo: John Butler. License: All Rights Reserved.
Photo: John Butler. License: All Rights Reserved.
Photo: John Butler. License: All Rights Reserved.
Stanzas are interspersed with these tastefully tapering rules.
Photo: John Butler. License: All Rights Reserved.
Bembo’s lowercase italic z is not approximately equal. The synthetic italic small caps could use some weight.
2 Comments on “The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated by Allen Mandelbaum”
That cover evokes album covers from 4AD circa the same time – Cocteau Twins and others.
The Bembo is also available slightly thicker for smaller font sizes under the name Bembo Book MT Pro. The Diotima was also available as a swash variant under the name Dinosaur.