Pen and graver : alphabets & pages of calligraphy / by Hermann Zapf ; with a preface by Paul Standard ; cut in metal by August Rosenberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zapf, Hermann.

Contributor:

Rosenberger, August.

Standard, Paul, 1896-1992.

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Feder und Stichel. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Calligraphy.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Zapf, Hermann (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

3 unnumbered leaves, 25 leaves, 6 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 23 x 31 cm

Other Title:

Alphabets and pages of calligraphy

Place of Publication:

New York : Museum Books Inc., [1952]

Language Note:

Translation of Feder und Stichel.

Notes:

"The historical development of occidental letter press': leaves [27]-[29].

"The first edition in English of ... was produced in 1952 in an impression of 2,000 copies printed on Italian Fabriano paper in the private printing-office of the D. Stempel AG type foundry, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). The calligraphic pages were designed during 1939-1941 by Hermann Zapf, who also composed the historical appendix. The latter was translated by Paul Standard of New York, who also wrote the preface. All the metal plates were cut by hand by the foundry's punch-cutter August Rosenberger. The text is again set in the Palatino type, designed for the foundry by Hermann Zapf for use in the original German edition."--Colophon.

White parchment spine lettered in gold; brown paper boards with design stamped in blind on front board.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy has autograph of Hermann Zapf.

Tehon Collection copy has: bill from Museum Books, Christmas card with wishes in three languages and two empty envelopes addressed to Atha Tehon laid in.

OCLC:

4615373