Tripp under sail
During the 1920s the skilled amateur artist and writer Herbert Alker Tripp produced three charming volumes recording his wanderings under sail around the east and south coasts of England, profusely illustrated with his masterful and evocative pen drawings. Over the years facsimile reprints had been made, but these suffered from the same cramped page layout as the originals, and perhaps it was time for a new treatment which gave the drawings more room to breathe.
A curious limitation was that the average number of words per page could not be increased, as this would result in too few pages to hold all the drawings. I decided on a much larger page size which would hold the portrait-format drawings in wide margins, and lend the books a more luxurious feel than they had enjoyed before. An extra touch was creation of illuminated capitals for the chapter openings, derived from a square of ‘sea texture’ from one of the drawings. Click below to read a few pages.
