Alphabeticum / Werner Pfeiffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfeiffer, Werner, 1937-

Contributor:

Pear Whistle Press.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alphabets--Specimens.

Alphabets.

Type and type-founding.

Printing--New York (State)--Brooklyn--21st century--Specimens.

Printing.

Artists' books.

New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.

Genre:

Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

Pfeiffer, Werner, 1937- (autograph)

Physical Description:

1 portfolio (31 unnumbered leaves) : chiefly illustrations ; 36 x 36 cm + Addendum ([20] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm)

Other Title:

Werner Pfeiffer Alphabeticum

Place of Publication:

Red Hook, NY : Pear Whistle Press, 2006.

Notes:

Loose leaves of experimental alphabet designs (one leaf per letter), issued in custom-made clam shell box.

"Limited edition of 52 signed and numbered copies"--Colophon.

"Many of the designs enclosed were originally hand stamped, later enlarged and then cut in linoleum. Others were just drawn, while some were accidental happenings on the proofing press. In 1965, as a collaboration between its Design and Education Departments, the Museum of Modern Art in New York arranged for an exhibition of some of these experiments. At that time, several national and international magazines published articles about this project. Now, four decades later, this is the first time that a sampling of the eighty or so originals is being editioned."--Leaf [2].

Pamphlet has title: Addendum.

The Addendum contains "a sampling of some of the articles in the national and international design literature which reviewed these works at the time when the project was first introduced." Cf. Addendum, p. [1].

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Penn Library has copy no. 3, signed by the artist.

OCLC:

70665551