One hundred books famous in typography / by Jerry Kelly ; with a foreword by Sebastian Carter ; based on an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, New York, 2021.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Jerry, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Kelly, Jerry, 1955- book designer, curator, writer of introduction.

Carter, Sebastian, writer of foreword.

Grolier Club, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--History--Exhibitions.

Books.

Printing--History--Exhibitions.

Printing.

Book design--History--Exhibition.

Book design.

Type and type-founding--History--Exhibitions.

Type and type-founding.

Type and type-founding--Specimens.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

333 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Grolier Club, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One Hundred Books Famous in Typography

Fifty Typefaces Famous in Typography.

Notes:

"Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, 12 May through 31 July 2021"--Verso of title page.

"Lenders to the exhibition: American Type Founders Company Library & Museum at Columbia University ; Robert Bringhurst ; T. Kimball Brooker ; Laure Burns ; Sebastian Carter ; David R. Godine ; The Grolier Club Library ; Martin Hutner ; Jerry Kelly ; Nancy Leo-Kelly ; The Morgan Library & Museum ; David Pankow ; Rochester Institute of Technology/Cary Library."--page 23.

"Fifty typefaces famous in typography," pages 263-314.

"One hundred books famous in typography has been typeset in Palatino nova types designed by Hermann Zapf. Seven hundred and fifty copies printed on Cougar Opaque paper, of which twenty-six copies are specially bound and signed by the author. Design & typography by Jerry Kelly"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781605830940

1605830941

OCLC:

1255417222