{"id":1140,"date":"2006-12-12T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2012-12-12T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:28:55","slug":"the-door-in-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/12\/the-door-in-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Door in the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882\u20131966) illustrates HG Wells&#8217; wonderful short stories in a rare edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/etext\/456\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Door in the Wall and Other Stories<\/em><\/a>, from 1911. More pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photogravure.com\/collection\/searchResults.php?page=1&amp;artist=Coburn,%20Alvin%20Langdon&amp;view=medium\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Door in the Wall<\/em> was a true three-way collaboration between the author, the photographer and the typographer, Frederic W. Goudy, who specifically produced his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p22.com\/Lanston\/Giampa\/MitchellKennerley.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kennerley Old Style<\/a> typeface for this book. Designed in the elegant Arts-and-Crafts style, it was printed on French hand-made paper at Goudy&#8217;s Village Press in an edition of 600 copies. In fact, only 300 copies contain the full compliment of Coburn&#8217;s rich photogravures, due to some being damaged in shipment and being replaced by aquatones. The photographer personally prepared the gravure plates, pulled proofs and oversaw the printing of the edition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photogravure.com\/collection\/searchResults.php?page=8&amp;keyword=coburn&amp;view=medium&amp;file=Coburn_21_01\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/coburn1.jpg\" alt=\"coburn1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Door in the Wall. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photogravure.com\/collection\/searchResults.php?page=9&amp;keyword=coburn&amp;view=medium&amp;file=Coburn_21_06\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/coburn2.jpg\" alt=\"coburn2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Lord of the Dynamos. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/18\/war-of-the-worlds-book-covers\/\">War of the Worlds book covers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882\u20131966) illustrates HG Wells&#8217; wonderful short stories in a rare edition of The Door in the Wall and Other Stories, from 1911. More pictures here. The Door in the Wall was a true three-way collaboration between the author, the photographer and the typographer, Frederic W. Goudy, who specifically produced his Kennerley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/12\/the-door-in-the-wall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Door in the Wall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,21,12,10],"tags":[7386,264,709],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-photography","category-typography","tag-alvin-langdon-coburn","tag-hg-wells","tag-photogravure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-io","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}