STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN: Alphabets with Random Quotations.
by Ruzicka, Rudolf (1883-1978)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine slipcase.
- Seller
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About This Item
Hanover, New Hampshire:: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, , 1968.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine slipcase.. First printing. Ten large loose plates, printed in two colors, each with the English alphabet in a different font and with quotes from famous literary figures set in that font, and housed in a numbered captioned folder. Quotes are by Robert Frost, Paul Valery, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'An inscription found in a guestbook of an inn in Chamonix, France,' William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Browne, and Henry David Thoreau; and The plates are preceded by 4 pages with a title and copyright page, a brief introduction, and table of contents. The typefaces and design were by Rudolph Ruzicka, a wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. All of the folders, along with an introductory 4 pp title folder (1 sheet folded) are housed in a gray linen-covered portfolio in a matching slipcase, 11 1/2 inches wide by 14 1/2 tall. A lovely production, with the individual plates suitable for framing. Printed at the The Meriden Gravure Company.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN: Alphabets with Random Quotations.
- Author
- Ruzicka, Rudolf (1883-1978)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a fine slipcase.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Friends of the Dartmouth Library,
- Place of Publication
- Hanover, New Hampshire:
- Date Published
- 1968.
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