Title gospel john (2 resultados)
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Librería: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaWorld of Books (was SecondSale)
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Librería: Penka Rare Books and Archives, ILAB, Berlin, AlemaniaPenka Rare Books and Archives, ILAB
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Brighton: [The Moon Society], [after 1920, before 1953]. Oblong folio (28.5 × 34.5 cm). Contemporary half-cloth over marbled boards; 57 leaves of embossed text in Moon type. In lieu of a title page, a leaf with transcribed raised alphabet is included: "A Simplified System of Embossed Reading for the Use of the Blind Invented by…William Moon, L.L.D, &c.". Dedication sticker to inside front board: "Embossed by the Moon Society for the British and Foreign Bible Society". Boards lightly scuffed and soiled; corners bumped; some fraying to lower hinges; toned throughout due to stock; still about very good. Volume one (of two) of the Gospel According to St. John, embossed in Moon type, a form of raised type for the visually impaired based on the Latin alphabet, developed in 1843-1845 by Dr. William Moon (1818-1894). The only non-Braille system that survives to this day, Moon type is most popular among the elderly and readers who went blind later in life, as was the case with Moon himself. Born in Kent, Moon learned to read by sight first, before losing his vision completely by the age of 21. With the loss of vision, he also gave up his plans to join the clergy, becoming instead a teacher for the blind and a philanthropist. As a teacher, Moon focused on the development of the new raised type, based on the simplified Latin characters which were easier to remember for those who knew letters by sight, but were less spatially economical than the Braille system. The first Moon type book appeared in 1847. To promote the new system, Moon founded and funded the Moon Society in Brighton (Sussex), publishing primarily devotional books during his lifetime. His ambitious project to release the entirety of the Bible in monthly instalments was completed in 1858, printed in 60 volumes. The present volume of the the Gospel According to St. John appears to be a later edition of the original instalment. "When Dr. Moon died in 1894, over 500 titles were printed in his type in over 419 languages and dialects" (See: Gabriel Farell, The Story of Blindness, p. 103). Notably, the geographic breadth of the use of the Moon type followed British colonial interests in India and China. In the United States, the Moon system competed with and superseded the initially more popular embossed Boston Line Type. Developed in the 1830s and used extensively at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts, Boston Line Type was similarly based on the Latin alphabet. Moon first promoted his system with a traveling tour he undertook in the US with his daughter Adelaide Moon in 1880s. His son, the ophthalmologist Robert Moon emigrated to Philadelphia in the same period, and continued to promote his father's system by publishing the Moon magazine starting in 1905, and helping to manage the Moon Society until his death 1914. The present volume was apparently published in Brighton at the Queens's Road address where the Moon Society was based 1915-1960, and where Moon lived with his family prior to his death, with this volume most likely published in the 1920s based on the binding and paper. As of May 2026, KVK, OCLC show one copy of St. John's Gospel published in Moon type at Cambridge University, with no holdings in North America.
