The last book that will ever bear the David R. Godine imprint is, fittingly, by David Godine himself. It’s called “Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher,” and it’s a safe bet that the people who these days run his company (now called just Godine) will never put out such a volume again.
Published last December, the book is oversized, with illustrations on every page, and typeset, in double, wide-margined columns, in Minion — a face based on Renaissance designs, that comes with all kinds of ornaments and swirling ampersands. The paper — a lush-looking, acid-free, 80-pound stock — is a disappointment, Godine says. He would have liked heavier and smoother, but couldn’t get it because of supply problems during Covid.
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