catich (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 25x17cm, [28pp]. With initial letters printed in various colours. Printed on Curtis Rag paper, bound in quarter-teal cloth over green paste paper-covered boards, gilt title to backstrip, dustjacket of buff paper printed in black and red. Based on a talk by the calligrapher and letterer Father Catich at the opening of an Eric Gill exhibition at the Newberry Library, Chicago. It showcases some Gill faces: Joanna (body), Perpetua Titling Capitals and the decorative Floriated Capitals (in blue, on the title page). Nicely produced and presumably a limited edition, although this is not stated. Near Fine (externally Fine, some very faint foxing spots around the prelims up to and including the title page) in a Good (browning, a small ink mark and nicks around the edges with a little loss at the foot of the spine and one longer closed 6cm tear to the back) dustjacket.

Zustand: Good. 2. Good++; Softcover; 2nd Edition; Covers are still glossy with a few light handling-marks; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 2.3 lbs; White covers with a green and orange "R" illustration, and title in white lettering; 1991, Catich Gallery Publishing; 311 pages; "The Origin of the Serif: Brush Writing and Roman Letters," by Edward M. Catich.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Set in Joanna with Perpetua Titling Capitals and two Floriated Capitals (all types designed by Eric Gill) and printed in coulours on Curtis Rag paper. Brush-drawn portrait frontispiece by Edward Catich. Decorative paper-covered boards, predominantly grey and yellow, sage-green cloth back titled in gilt. Manilla dust-jacket (slightly frayed at head), titled in red and black. Book label of Evan Gill with remains of packagingg from the Prairie Press to him tucked in at the rear. A very ood bright copy.

Hardcover. Gill, Eric (illustrator). First edition. Unpaginated, approx. 36 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman, signed by him, the two decorative letters on the title page, Floriated Capitals are types designed by Gill. Marcus McCorison's (American Antiquarian Society) copy with his book label [Marcus Allen McCorison] and original publisher's invoice to him laid-in. Orig. gray cloth spine and decorated boards. Fine in nicked dust wrapper with loss at head spine.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter green cloth with gilt spine lettering and green patterned paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Frontispiece. (27pp). Fine/fine. This first edition of an important study is as pristine as it gets -- tight, bright. Publisher Carroll Coleman notes in rear colophon, "the large letters on each page are Perpetua Titling Capitals, and the two decorative letters on the title page are Floriated Capitals, all types designed by Eric Gill, and all hand-set." A-Z (one letter at top of each page) appear in various colors within varying color borders. Laid in is a fine glossy black-and-white 7" X 5" photograph showing Catich holding a brush and lettering a large sheet, captioned "Father E.M. Catich of Saint Ambrose College, demonstrates his views on The Origin of Serifs 25 June 1962 Rockefeller Institute, New York.".

Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter green cloth with gilt spine lettering and green patterned paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Frontispiece. (27pp). Fine/fine. Outstandingly tight 'n' bright, fresh and handsome first edition of this important study. As publisher Carroll Coleman notes in the rear colophon, "the large letters on each page are Perpetua Titling Capitals, and the two decorative letters on the title page are Floriated Capitals, all types designed by Eric Gill, and all hand-set." A-Z (one letter at top of each page) appear in various colors within varying color borders. Laid in is a pristine, glossy black-and-white 7" X 5" photograph showing the author holding brush lettering a large sheet, captioned "Father E.M. Catich of Saint Ambrose College, demonstrates his views on The Origin of Serifs 25 June 1962 Rockefeller Institute, New York.".

1 vols. Thin 8vo. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First edition, one of 400 copies. First edition, one of 400 copies. 1 vols. Thin 8vo. Cloth spine and boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Printed in black, green and reddish-brown in Linotype Baskerville with upwards of 200 illustrations and alphabets. This, a paperback copy that has been bound up in black cloth with title label insets on the front board and spine. Actually quite attractive.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. Cloth, no dj. The Catfish Press, 1968. 4to., 310 pp., profusely illus. Tipped in is a single sheet folded three times to form octavo pamphlet with sample pages, issued by the Catfish Press. The bound book is in very good condition. Some rubbing and edge wear to boards; additional light scuffs on spine. Mild foxing to fore edge. Else clean and bright. A handsome copy with publisherâs pamphlet tipped in.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 vols. 8vo & sm. folio. Pp. xii, 45 + title & 94 loose plates (32 x 19 cm) in a portfolio, qtr. cloth, printed labels. Very good. Uncommon. 'In 1936 I was given permission to erect scaffolding in front of the inscription, and from this scaffolding I made photographs, measurements and rubbings.The letters, signs and marks in this portfolio are meticulously and carefully copies from these rubbings.' (p.35).

ORIGINAL MA THESIS. 4to-sized (27.7 x 21.6cm), pp. [1], xi, 73 (typed on rectos only), incl. b/w plates, plus numerous clipped illustrations of calligraphic figures pasted in between paragraphs, interleaved with two pages of hand-written corrections in Catich's hand. Grey endpapers. Blue-grey cloth, upper board lettered in gilt. Rubbed, wear and pushing to extremities, a few black pen marks, 2cm patch of black pen (to conceal library shelf mark?) towards heel of spine. Glue and paper remains of book plates to front endpapers, toned, 4cm closed tear to bottom edge of first blank, blind 'St. Ambrose College Library' stamp and second, smudged circular black ink stamp (possibly a deaccession stamp?) to title page. Occasional pencil marginalia, relating to corrections, glue darkened around illustrations pasted-in. Else, internally clean and tight. Very good. WorldCat locates one copy only (University of Iowa). A unique copy of calligrapher and educator Father Edward Catich's 1935 MA thesis, featuring two interleaved pages of his own corrections, and formerly from the library of St. Ambrose College, whose Art Department Catich founded in 1939, four years after being awarded his MA; given the corrections and its former home, likely Catich's own copy. A celebrated calligrapher, stone cutter, jazz musician and lecturer, Father Edward Catich (1906-1979) was an authority on the Roman alphabet and the inscription on Trajan's Column, especially. He discussed the inscription in his thesis, as well as in later publications for his own Catfish Press, such as Letters Redrawn from the Trajan Inscription (1961) and his important Origin of the Serif (1968). In the latter, Catich argued that the serif originated with Roman square capitals and the use of the flat brush, as typified on Trajan's Column. Catich studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (192629), St. Ambrose College and the State University of Iowa, where he wrote this MA thesis, before travelling to Rome in the same year (1935) to study at Pontifical Gregorian University for the Catholic priesthood. He simultaneously conducted palaeographic and epigraphic research. He was ordained in 1938 and returned to Iowa to teach, across an astonishing range of subjects, at St. Ambrose College. PROVENANCE: From the collection of Father David Clark, former Director (2008-2011) of the Von Hügel Institute (VHI), University of Cambridge.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [36]; portrait frontispiece, title page in red, blue, and black, color alphabetical headers on each page, patterned paper-covered boards backed in green cloth, gilt title direct on spine; fine in a lightly toned dust jacket with two closed tears. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press. Signed by Catich on the flyleaf. Cheever 139.

First Edition. First edition, 4to, pp. x, [2], 310, [2]; typographgical illustrations throughout, some printed in red and green; very handsome book; fine copy in a fine dust jacket, t.e.g. "A new approach to the history, lineage, and development of our alphabet" (jacket blurb). The author was a well-known stone-cutter and calligrapher. Philip Hofer, of Harvard, said the book was "a work of genius." This copy with a presentation from Catich on the flyleaf, and a typed letter from him regarding burnishers with a long manuscript addition laid in.

283 x 216 mm. (11 1/8 x 8 1/2"). xi, [i], 310 pp., [1] leaf; [7] printed leaves. Two volumes. Publisher's marbled blue boards, text volume backed with reddish-brown leather, gilt lettering on spine, portfolio backed in gray cloth, paper label on upper cover. Housed together in a (slightly toned) matching slipcase with paper label on spine. With typographic illustrations throughout the text volume, and with four pages of printed brush-drawn letters and 23 SHEETS OF LETTERS BRUSH-DRAWN BY CATICH in the portfolio. In near-mint condition. In very fine condition, this is a signed deluxe copy of a ground-breaking work on the roman alphabet by the American Catholic priest, artist, and calligraphy expert Father Edward Catich (1906-79). Lettering was important for the author from an early age, as he was apprenticed to a sign writer as a young orphan, and practiced that trade for several years before earning a master's degree in art and moving to Rome to study for the priesthood. While in Rome, where he also studied paleography, he made a thorough study of the letter forms incised on Trajan's Column. In the 19th century, a theory emerged suggesting that the letters for such inscriptions had first been painted on with a brush before being engraved in the stone. Using the expertise he had gained as a union sign-writer, Catich developed the widely accepted thesis that the letters of the imperial Roman inscriptions owed their shape and characteristic serifs, not to the exigencies of the chisel or other stonecutting tools, but to the use of a flat brush to paint the letters on the stone. The present work is the fullest development of that thesis, which led to Father Catich's being recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on the origins and history of the roman alphabet. Our book was not only written, but also printed, by Catich at his Catfish press, partly in type of his own design. The deluxe edition includes a full Roman alphabet of letters written out by hand by Catich; he writes in the introduction that they are intended "for study and for encouraging others in the use of the chisel-shaped brush." It is important, he tells us, that such a brush does not die out, since ignorance of it "severely limits our western creative letter-making potential." The attractive portfolio of original calligraphy rounds out this set, looking both back to the Roman tradition and forward to the future of the art so dear to Catich. Our special signed, limited edition is uncommonly seen on the market. FIRST EDITION. No. 15 OF 50 COPIES specially bound, SIGNED by the author, and with a portfolio of brush-written letters (from a total edition of 1,400).