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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[trade dispatches]
There has been a good crop of libel actions at Gisborne, most of which have come to nothing. In one, £5000 damages was claimed, None of the actions involved any particular legal point, and not one possessed the slightest public interest. This little town maintains its reputation for quarrels and litigation.
Mr A. D. Willis, of Wanganui, announces that his Christmas cards for the new season are in course of preparation. Among the numerous lithographic establishments in New Zealand, Mr Willis's is the only one, so far as we are aware, that has made any attempt at fine-art work. To this branch he has devoted both personal attention and considerable capital. His ball programmes are known to all the printers, and his greeting cards to all the bookselling trade. To both trades Typo's advice is: Encourage local industry.
The publisher of the Illustrirte Zeitung, of Leipzig, has sent us a specimen copy of that paper, one of the best illustrated weeklies in the world. The full-page engraving of the Velino waterfall, Italy, in the number before us, is a specially fine piece of work. From the same house we have a specimen part of Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst, an art work, demy folio. The engravings are printed in the finest style, on plate paper, on one side of the sheet only, and each one may be justly styled a « masterpiece. » There are ten in the specimen number, two of them (« Sappho, » after Alma-Tadema, and « An Idyl, » by Paul Martin) occupying two pages each. The letter-press descriptions are on a separate sheet. This work is published in annual volumes of twelve parts each—about 80 plates to the volume, and the number to hand is Part I, vol. Ix. We have also some prospectus sheets of the work, which may be obtained at our office.