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Pressing matters : thoughts and opinions about the private press / by Leonard F. Bahr, Paul Hayden Duensing, Rollin Milroy, and William Rueter.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1933
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Private presses.
- private presses.
- Genre:
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Palatino.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Optima.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Edgmont Inline.
- Marbled papers
- Case bindings
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942-2025 (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 45 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Dundas, Ontario] : The Aliquando Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- The idea of the private press ; The private press defined / Leonard F. Bahr
- A private press, if ... / Rollin Milroy
- Private printing, private typefounding / Paul Hayden Duensing
- Afterword: printing as pleasure / William Rueter.
- Notes:
- "The book was designed, printed, and bound by William Rueter at The Aliquando Press, using Palatino and Optima types with Egmont Inline initials and a variety of the Press' typographic resources. It was printed on Hahnemuhle paper. Some texts have been slightly edited for clarity and consistency, and the printer apologizes for some regrettable errors in concept and execution. There is no perfect book. Of fifty copies produced, copies 11 to 50 are bound in hand-marbled paper covered boards. The book was begun in August 2011 and printing was completed in December 2012, on the eve of the Press' fiftieth anniversary."--Colophon.
- In envelope with applied paper label on spine.
- Local Notes:
- Three-piece case (or Bradel) binding. Spine piece is brown fabric; marbled paper-covered boards. Applied paper label on spine.
- Exhibited: "Across the Spectrum: Color in American Fine and Private Press Books, 1890-2015," University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, February 15 - May 23, 2016.
- Misc 1933: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck. Numbered "author's copy 7/7" with autograph in pencil. With envelope.
- Contains:
- Bahr, Leonard F. Idea of the private press.
- Bahr, Leonard F. Private press defined.
- Duensing, Paul Hayden, 1929-2006. Private printing, private typefounding.
- Milroy, Rollin. Private press, if...
- Rueter, William, 1940- Printing as pleasure.
- OCLC:
- 830321244
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