The words of the masters : reflections on the fine art of type design / by Frederic W. Goudy ... [and five others] ; wood engravings by John DePol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Hammer, Victor, 1882-1967, type designer.

Koch, Rudolf, 1876-1934, type designer.

Krimpen, Jan van, 1892-1958, type designer.

Weiss, Emil Rudolf, 1875-1942, type designer.

Zapf, Hermann, type designer.

DePol, John, 1913-2004, wood engraver.

Alterman, Benjamin, binder.

Pickering Press, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type designers.

Book design.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Perpetua Titling.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bulmer.

Mohawk Letterpress (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

DePol, John, 1913-2004 (autograph) (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Alterman, Benjamin (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

[20] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Maple Shade, N.J. : Pickering Press, 1982.

Notes:

Quotations from "Frederic W. Goudy, Victor Hammer, Rudolf Koch, Jan van Krimpen, Emil R. Weiss and Hermann Zapf."

"Set in Perpetua Titling, Bulmer, and the personal types of the designers. Printed ... on Mohawk Letterpress ...in an edition of seventy-five copies ... The binding is by Benjamin Alterman."

Errata card laid in.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 1 is unnumbered. Has inscription for John DePol.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 has inscription: "To Jack Walsdorf with best wishes. John DePol." It is copy number 3, 26 February 1983. Signed by binder.

OCLC:

9181856