Tom's House
Basic
- Apr 19, 2018
An editor-typesetter’s nightmare: This is an actual image of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac’s own revisions of a galley proof of one of his stories. In those days much editing was done after the initial typesetting had taken place. Nowadays, thankfully, editing is most often done on a manuscript pulled up on a computer screen and completed prior to any typography. A typesetter today who had to wrestle with such a page would swiftly commit himself or herself to the nearest funny farm for a rest cure.![big balzac page copy.jpg big balzac page copy.jpg](https://colony.litopia.com/data/attachments/2/2357-32009ac3cc546829e7b6bf1b2419d3a1.jpg)
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