Jost Amman's cuts of craft-workers / with an introduction by Veronica Speedwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amman, Jost, 1539-1591, artist.

Contributor:

Speedwell, Veronica, writer of introduction.

Brett, Christian, printer.

Moss, Graham, 1947-2025, printer, binder, autographer.

Wolpe, Berthold, type designer.

Cartiere Enrico Magnani, papermaker.

Peacock Blockmaking, engraver.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.

Amman, Jost.

Occupations--16th century--Pictorial works.

Occupations.

Illustration of books--16th century.

Illustration of books.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Hyperion.

Case bindings (Binding)

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Printed paper binding labels (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Moss, Graham (autograph) (Kislak Center copy) (Vilain Wieck Collection copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4], ix, [1], 57, [5] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Cuts of craft-workers

Place of Publication:

Oldham ... England : Incline Press, 2008.

Notes:

"The paper is Magnani from John Purcell Paper The type is Hyperion, designed by Berthold Wolpe for the Bauer Foundry in 1931 and still available from their office in Barcelona The printing plates were supplied by Peacock Blockmaking of Berkhamstead Printing was done by Christian Brett treadling a Crown Folio Arab, and Graham Moss on the Autovic, both tired out from hand feeding so many sheets, because this edition is of about four hundred copies. This copy was hand bound by [signature: Graham Moss.]"--Colophon.

Printed in black and red.

Binding: decorated paper boards; paper title label printed in black and red; deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has publisher's prospectus for this edition laid in.

OCLC:

262617166