When the Association was still in its first decades, the editors were not themselves much more than twenty years older than the journal itself, but as our half-century approaches the need to introduce fresh, and much younger, blood has seemed ever more pressing.

Editorial.

Last delightful January in Bridwell Library made me wish to visit Italy again - Parma, in the north; not to view paintings by their local artist from the sixteenth century, Correggio, though I should see them; not to experience the excellent ham which makes the place famous these days, or even its Parmesan cheese, though I should expect to enjoy both those, but to spend time in the museum which houses all the very many books and ephemera printed there by my hero of the moment, Giambattista Bodoni, and see the astounding assembly of metal types he cut and cast during roughly four decades fro 1770 to 1810.

Giambattista Bodoni.