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Typographic years : a printer's journey through a half century, 1925-1975 / by Joseph Blumenthal.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Reference 215
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990, author, book designer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990.
- Blumenthal, Joseph.
- Spiral Press--History.
- Spiral Press.
- Printers--United States--Biography.
- Printers.
- Printing--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Printing.
- Book design--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Book design.
- Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- New York (State)--New York.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 153 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimiles (some color) ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Lunenburg, Vermont : Stinehour Press
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grolier Club, [1982]
- Contents:
- Typographic years
- Beginnings
- The Spiral Press
- Early years
- The nineteen twenties
- Why printing?
- Separation of printer and designer
- The American Institute of Graphic Arts
- Germany and Holland
- Robert Frost at the Spiral Press
- The Colophon
- The Depression
- Of type and the alphabet
- Emerson type
- Printing on the hand press
- The limited editions club
- What makes fine printing fine
- Printing education
- The Museum of Modern Art
- The public papers and addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The typophiles
- Printer and publisher
- Printing houses and the artists
- World War II
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum Press
- Steuben Glass
- Institutions and foundations
- The Grolier Club
- The Pierpont Morgan Library
- Liquidation and dispersal
- Art of the printed book
- The printed book in America
- The heroic generation
- Exhibitions.
- Notes:
- "Printed for the members of the Grolier Club."
- Issued in slipcase.
- "The Committee on Publications of the Grolier Clun certifies that this book is one of an edition of 300 copies. It is the first of the publications to mark the centennial of the Grolier Club ... designed by Joseph Blumental, printed at The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, with reproductions printed by The Meriden Gravure Company ... signed by the author"--Colophon.
- "The Grolier Club and the Spiral Press": 4 unnumbered pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates, between pages 6 and 7.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is in slipcase. Has copy number 277.
- Cited in:
- Ong & Holzenberg, For Jean Grolier & his friends, P318, page 379
- OCLC:
- 9464953
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