Studies in Type Design, Alphabets with Random Quotations
by Ruzicka, Rudolph
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About This Item
Hanover, New Hampshire: Friends of the Dartmouth Library / [The Meriden Gravure Company], 1968. Hardcover. Fine. Linen-covered portfolio, lettered in black on upper board and spine; in slipcase; contains 10 type specimens (complete alphabets, plus a quotation), each a loose leaf with printed wraps, plus 4 pages of text. Presentation copy, with bookplate of the American Printing History Association on front paste-down. Quotes by Robert Frost, Paul Valery, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Brown, and Henry David Thoreau. A lavish production.
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- Sanctuary Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D7999
- Title
- Studies in Type Design, Alphabets with Random Quotations
- Author
- Ruzicka, Rudolph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Friends of the Dartmouth Library / [The Meriden Gravure Company]
- Place of Publication
- Hanover, New Hampshire
- Date Published
- 1968
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