Evening conversations of the booklover Rubricius and the printer Tympanus / Oldrich Menhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menhart, Oldřich, 1897-1962, author.

Contributor:

Eberhardt, Fritz, 1917-1997, binder.

Jackson, Bill, 1917-2003, artist.

Cusick, Rick, calligrapher.

Crabgrass Press, publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Abendgesprache. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Book collecting.

Printing.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Trump Mediaeval.

Ingres (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

59, [3] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Prairie Village, Kan. : Crabgrass Press, 1980.

Notes:

Erata slip inserted at end.

Translation of Abendgespräche.

100 copies.

"Printed on Ingres paper with hand-set Trump Mediaeval type. The frontispiece is a linocut by Bill Jackson ; Rick Cusick's calligraphy for the title page headline is based on some of the design characteristics of Menhart's calligraphy and letterforms. The binding is by Fritz Eberhardt."--Colophon.

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.

OCLC:

7438271