College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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A] FOREWORD lN echo of the past, a reincarnation of the lazy, beautiful Williamsburg of Colonial days, sur- rounds us here. It is particularly suitable then that we fit this, the thirty-first volume of The Colonial Echo, to the things about us. Even the name suggests the theme, that of the rebirth of Colonial Williamsburg. With this in mind, the staff has conscientiously tried to build up a book which, wherever pofsible, has been modeled after those printed by William Parkes, a famous printer of Williamsburg in the eighteenth cen- tury. The cover, the paper, the typeface, the block- prints, all belong to that colorful period when Wash- ington, Jefferson and Franklin linked their names with that of William and Mary. It is regretted that the mechanical limitations im- posed by photo- engraving prohibit us from using the same paper and type throughout the book, but, since this could not be done, we have tried to match all sec- tions as closely as pofsible. The division pages of this volume of The Colo- nial Echo are interesting. They are reproduced directly from blocks to the pages in this book, in just the fashion that William Parkes or Benjamin Franklin would have

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Copyright 1933 A. Fred Eilers, Editor-in-Chief Ralph W. Murray, Business Manager

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done them. These blocks, a separate one for each color in the print, were cut exprefsly for this book by the well-known artist, Charles W. Smith, who devoted much time and research in their preparation. It is the hope of the staff that we have captured, even to a small extent, some of the calm beauty which made Williamsburg famous throughout the eighteenth century world. We, then, present this thirty-first volume of The Colonial Echo to you as a reminder of the days when you watched Williamsburg come back out of the past — for a glorious future.