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Postscripts on Dwiggins, essays & recollections / by Dorothy Abbe [and others]. Edited by Paul A. Bennett ; with a selective check list compiled by Dorothy Abbe & Rollo G. Silver.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection Art and Design Z232.D975 B4 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Paul A., 1897-1966, editor.
- Series:
- Typophile chap books ; no. 35, 36.
- Typophile chap books, ; no. 35, 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956.
- Dwiggins, W. A.
- Type and type-founding--United States.
- Type and type-founding.
- Graphic design (Typography).
- United States.
- Graphic design (Typography)--United States.
- Printing--United States.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Typophiles, 1960.
- Contents:
- V. 1. Introduction / Paul A. Bennett
- Note, to be filed in a cornerstone; PPS / Paul Hollister
- Dwig and the Borzoi / Alfred A. Knopf
- WAD's marionettes / Mabel H. Dwiggins
- The artist states his credo / Carl Purington Rollins
- Towards a renaissance of the manuscript tradition / Philip Hofer
- WAD and the Limited Editions Club / Helen Macy.
- V. 2. Sharing a studio / John Goss
- Early years in Hingham / Chester C. Lane
- WAD "On the job" / Margaret B. Evans
- Dwiggins enters the scene / Watson M. Gordon
- Püterschein-Hingham / Dorothy Abbe
- "Is Dwiggins supposed to be good?" / George Salter
- electra, caledonia, eldorado and experimentals / Rudolph Ruzicka
- WAD and linotype / Paul A. Bennett
- A selective check list / Dorothy Abbe and Rollo G. Silver.
- Notes:
- "This Memoir, designed by Rudolph Ruzicka, is set in Linotype Electra and printed at The Anthoensen Press, The Meriden Gravure Company and Colorgraphic Offset Company. The paper is Curtis Colophon Text ... The edition comprises 450 copies for subscribers and contributors, and 600 copies for general sale."--Colophon, v. 2.
- Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 255-268).
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy volumes 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy volumes 1 & 2 have transparent paper covers.
- OCLC:
- 1431245
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