Victor Hammer, artist and printer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hammer, Carolyn Reading, editor.

Mardersteig, Martino, book designer.

Stamperia Valdonega, printer.

Anvil Press (Lexington, Ky.), publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hammer, Victor, 1882-1967.

Hammer, Victor.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Dante.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[10], 213, [3] pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm

Manufacture:

Verona : Stamperia Valdonega

Place of Publication:

Lexington [Ky.] : Anvil Press, 1981.

Contents:

Who is Victor Hammer? / Rudolf Koch ; translated from the German by Ulrich Middeldorf

Mezzotints / Ulrich Middeldorf

Engravings & woodcuts

Inscriptions & symbols

Uncial type-faces. Foreword / R. Hunter Middleton. A master of punch-cutting / Hermann Zapf. Documentation of Hammer types / W. Gay Reading, Jr.

Four presses : a bibliography / Paul Holbrook ; with notes by Carolyn R. Hammer (p. [137]-195)

A Hammer bibliography / David Farrell (p. [197]-213).

Credits:

Prepared under the direction of Carolyn R. Hammer.

Notes:

Prepared under the direction of Carolyn R. Hammer.

Companion volumes: Victor Hammer, artist and craftsman / John Rothenstein. 1978; Victor Hammer : an artist's testament. 1988.

"This first edition is limited to five hundred and fifty copies (1-500; I-L numbered at the press). Designed by Martino Mardersteig in Dante type and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega"--Colophon

Includes: Rudloph Koch, Who is Victor Hammer?, Ulrich Middeldorf I. Mezzotints, II. Engravings & woodcuts, III. Inscriptions & symbols, Iv. Uncial type-faces, R. Hunter Middleton, Foreword, Hermann Zapf, A master of punch-cutting, W. Gay Reading, Jr., Documentation of Hammer types, Paul Holbrook, Four presses: a bibliography, David Farrell, A Hammer bibliography.

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 copy is number 452.

OCLC:

8806838