studies type design alphabets random von ruzicka rudolph (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Hanover, NH: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1968. Folio. 4pp, 10 plates. Very Good book. Near Very Good slipcase. (type, type-founding) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. First edition. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Ten folded sheets in two or three color type, alphabets and varying type formats, the calligraphy chosen suit the varying ten titles and authors. Each sheet housed in their own titled paper portfolio. Also laid-in the prospectus noting sale price of $25.00 per copy. First author is Frost, and last, Henry David Thoreau. Printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Orig. beige cloth portfolio, spine lettered in black. Fine in fine matching slipcase.

10 broadsides of author quotations designed by Ruzicka using various alphabets each housed in a paper folder. Housed together with title page, introduction by Ruzicka and contents list. Quotation plates printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Folio, original grey portfolio with black lettering and a matching slipcase. A very good copy. The quotations are from works by Robert Frost, Paul Valà ry, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Browne and Henry David Thoreau. With a 'Compliments of the American Printing History Association' book label.