Bequest / Goethe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832, author.

Contributor:

Hammer, Victor, 1882-1967, type designer.

Typocrafters (Group), associated name.

Anvil Press (Lexington, Ky.), publisher, printer.

Cartiere Enrico Magnani, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

German poetry--18th century.

German poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- American Unical.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Andromaque.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[8] pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

For the Typocrafters in Lexington, 7 October, 1989

Place of Publication:

[Lexington, Ky.] : The Anvil Press, [1989]

Notes:

Caption title.

"'Bequest' was composed in American Uncial type and Andromaque (interlinear). The paper is from the Magnani Mills, Pescia, and was made for Victor Hammer in 1927 ..."--Page [8].

Contains three lines from Goethe's poem Bequest (translation of Vermächtnis), in English and German.

Text in red and black.

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.

Contains:

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Vermächtnis.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Vermächtnis. English.

OCLC:

908696129