The Golden Sun (1838) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Golden Sun (1838) / GlennFleishman
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| 説明 | Newspaper duty stamp required by newspaper to pay to the state based on each half-sheet of paper consumed. These stamps could be prepaid and applied before printing by the mills, but had to use a stamp custom to the newspaper. It reads:Sun newspaperOne pennyDieu et mon droitFor the coronation of Queen Victoria on 28 June 1838, the Sun newspaper printed a special portrait of Her Majesty on the front page; no printing was on the verse, so it could be cut out and hung. The remainder of the front and back page were printed with a golden-hued ink, hence this unique edition’s moniker, “The Golden Sun.”The ink came with a price: a doctor gathered reports second-hand of the death of those who created brass filings as dust to spread on the paper, and first-hand accounts (including one medical examination of a patient who recovered) of the printers who applied sizing (something tacky) and then brushed the filings onto an estimated 250,000 copies—possibly the largest edition of any paper to that point in time and for decades to follow. My full account of the “paper that poisoned its printers” appeared in the Economist, 23 May 2018, after I saw a copy at the St Bride Printing Library in London, a historic institution with incredible holdings. www.economist.com/prospero/2018/05/23/the-paper-that-pois...The copy in these photos are from a version acquired in October 2022 by yours truly. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-10-06 12:42:44 |
| 撮影者 | GlennFleishman |
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| カメラ | iPhone 14 Pro , Apple |
| 露出 | 0.007 sec (1/145) |
| 開放F値 | f/1.8 |