Goudy, master of letters / by Vrest Orton ; with an introduction by Frederic W. Goudy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orton, Vrest, 1897-1986, author.

Contributor:

Forgue, Norman W., book designer.

Graf, Louis, printer.

Coutu, Hugh, compositor.

Black Cat Press, printer, publisher.

Cuneo Fine Binding Studio (Chicago, Ill.), binder.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947.

Goudy, Frederic W.

Village Press.

Type and type-founding--United States--History--20th century.

Type and type-founding.

Type designers--United States--Biography.

Type designers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Subscribers lists.

Private press books (Printing)

Worthy Roxburge (Paper).

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Kennerley.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

101, [5] pages : portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The Black Cat Press, 1939.

Notes:

"... designed by Norman W. Forgue, has been composed in Goudy's Kennerley types by Hugh Coutu. ... 500 copies, of which 400 are for sale, were printed by Louis Graf on Worthy Roxburge paper at the Black Cat Press ... bound by the John F. Cuneo Company."--Colophon.

List of subscribers: pages [1]-[4] at end.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection has a bookplate for and an empty envelope addressed to Norman Forgue. Also a printed sheet advertising the book. All laid in.

OCLC:

1219978