{"product_id":"at-the-typeface-selections-from-the-newsletter-of-the-victorian-society-of-editors-edited-by-janet-mackenzie-signed-copy","title":"'At the Typeface: Selections from the Newsletter of the Victorian Society of Editors' edited by Janet Mackenzie (signed copy)","description":"\u003ch4\u003ePublished to mark the Victorian Society of Editors’ thirty-fifth anniversary, \u003cem\u003eAt the Typeface\u003c\/em\u003e is a collective portrait of Australian publishing from inside the machinery.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts contributors write about copy-editing, proofreading, freelance work, reference systems, author–editor relations, publishing hierarchies and industry politics (hot goss).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are pieces on editing bibliographies, surviving freelance life or negotiating with publishers sit beside memoirs of major Australian editors and publishers, arguments about gender and language, reports from industry bodies, and accounts of publishing’s less dignified daily rituals. Much of the pleasure comes from its tone: dry, exacting, collegial and occasionally mutinous. These are people professionally condemned to care about misplaced full stops, and therefore unusually alert to the larger structures hiding behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is also a useful piece of Australian book-history ephemera, preserving the working culture of editing before publishing became fully digitised and professionally atomised. For editors, writers, publishers and anyone interested in how books are actually made rather than mystically delivered by the muse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSociety of Editors (Victoria), 2005. Paperback. Inscribed “To Stefanie” and signed by editor Janet Mackenzie on the title page. Light shelfwear and minor creasing to covers; internally clean.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914837254227,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-08-06T115254.107.png?v=1785981258","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/at-the-typeface-selections-from-the-newsletter-of-the-victorian-society-of-editors-edited-by-janet-mackenzie-signed-copy","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}