American proprietary typefaces / [edited by David Pankow].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pankow, David, editor.

Bixler, Michael, compositor.

Bixler, Winifred, compositor.

Kelly, Jerry, 1955- book designer.

American Printing History Association, publisher.

Stinehour Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type and type-founding--United States.

Type and type-founding.

Type designers--United States.

Type designers.

United States.

Genre:

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur (Monotype)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo (Monotype)

History.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

176 pages, 38 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : American Printing History Association, 1998.

Contents:

A note on American arts and crafts typefaces / Susan Otis Thompson

The proprietary types of the Merrymount Press / Martin Hutner

On the Montaigne and Centaur types of Bruce Rogers

The typefaces of Dard Hunter, Senior and Junior / Cathleen A. Baker

Frederic Warde, Stanley Morison, and the Arrighi type / Mark Argetsinger

Joseph Blumenthal's Spiral/Emerson type / Jerry Kelly

Frederic Goudy's Kaatskill type / Dwight Agner

Victor Hammer's Uncial types / W. Gay Reading

The experimental types of W.A. Dwiggins / John Kristensen

Contemporary private types / Paul Hayden Duensing.

Notes:

"Set in Monotype Centaur and Bembo by Michael and Winifred Bixler. The text has been printed letterpress and the illustrations by offset lithography at The Stinehour Press on Cougar Opaque paper Bound in imported cloth by Acme Bookbinding. Seven hundred and twenty copies have been printed, of which one hundred and twenty are specially bound ... Designed by Jerry Kelly."--Colophon (ordinary issue).

"One hundred and twenty [copies] are printed on Hahnemuhle Biblio mould-made paper ... specially bound by Judi Conant and contain a group of broadsides printed at various presses from original foundry versions of some of the faces discussed in this publication"--Colophon (deluxe issue).

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is ordinary issue. Laid in is a business card for Vilain (as a publisher, Allied Health, at F.A. Davis Company, Philadelphia).

Cited in:

Kelly, J. One hundred books famous in typography, 87.

OCLC:

39974732