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The Vandercook book.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio N7433.3 .V36 2009 + related ephemera
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vandercook, Robert O. (Robert Oatman), 1866-1951.
- Artists' books.
- Printing presses.
- Vandercook, Robert O. (Robert Oatman), 1866-1951--Anniversaries, etc.
- Vandercook, Robert O.
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 1 portfolio (38 items) : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Title from first leaf: Vandercook proof press celebrates its 100th birthday, 1909-2009
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : Roni Gross and Barbara Henry, [2009]
- Summary:
- In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Vandercook proof press, thirty artists were invited to submit a sample of their work with a description of their technique. These samples include text and illustrations using a variety of methods and printing surfaces. Five unbound pamphlets of Vandercook exercises and procedures, three of which -- Vandercook troubleshooting, hand composition, and printing type and polymer -- were created by students during three separate workshops at the Center for Book Arts in New York and are housed in a printed wrapper.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- "Published by Roni Gross and Barbara Henry in an edition of one hundred copies"--Colophon.
- Distributed by The Center for the Book Arts, in New York.
- "January 2009"--Colophon.
- Includes 30 unbound broadsides from various artists, measuring 28 x 36 cm., folded to 28 x 18 cm. Most are signed by the artist responsible. Colophon is the first of these broadsides.
- "Texts are poems, tracts, essays, specimens, alphabetic symbols, collages and fields of color"--Colophon.
- Contents of booklet of essays: The joy of Vandercooking / Barbara Henry -- Vandercook : the great American proof press / Henry Morris -- Robert O. Vandercook : the man behind the presses / by Paul Moxon -- The archive / Fritz Klinke -- So much depends on a Vandercook proofing press / Michael Peich -- What's it going to cost to pull the first sheet / Perry Tymeson.
- "Housed in a cloth-covered clamshell box made by Campbell Logan Bindery, [the portfolio] was designed by Roni Gross and Barbara Henry and includes a drawing by Peter Schell. The education and essays sections were printed on Hahnemuhle Bugra papers ... Coptic binding for the essay section was done by Ana Cordeiro and Peter Schell"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- RBC has also some related ephemera in a binder.
- OCLC:
- 271450025
- Online:
- Publisher's website.
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