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Specimen book.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1751
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tetenbaum, Barbara, artist, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tetenbaum, Barbara.
- Artists' books--United States.
- Artists' books.
- Type and type-founding--Specimens.
- Type and type-founding.
- type specimens (documents).
- United States.
- Genre:
- artists' books (books)
- Artists' books
- Specimens
- Artists' books.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Tetenbaum, Barbara (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [42] pages ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Oregon : Triangular Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Notes:
- "Designed & produced in 2011 ..."--Colophon.
- "Laid out on the computer and laser-printed. Hand bound in mid-century fake marbled boards."--Artist's website.
- "Every typeface and its style that is loaded onto my computer are cataloged in this small specimen book. The short but dramatic sample text "I'm Moving Out" is used to offer a tongue-in-cheek understanding of the voice of type design, as well as to confront and neutralize a difficult piece of personal history"--23 Sandy Gallery website.
- Limited edition of 150 signed and numbered copies.
- 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 34.
- OCLC:
- 818675487
- Publisher Number:
- 146.87
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