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The Pentagram Press commonplace book : a selection of typographic interpretations.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pentagram Press.
- Private presses--Minnesota.
- Private presses.
- Fine books--Specimens.
- Fine books.
- Minnesota.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Specimens
- Commonplace books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Misc 1983)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Misc 1983)
- Physical Description:
- 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations, photograph ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Selection of typographic interpretations
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Pentagram Press, 1988.
- Notes:
- Colophon: A colophonic afterword. This is the first book printed in Pentagram's newly resurrected shop in the Inkunabula Arts Building ... This book required 112 press runs (time is the invisible factor!) on ArchesWove, which ammounts to nearly 28,000 impressions. All of the type was handset, except where noted, & printed by Michael Tarachow in very long days & even longer nights, midwinter 1987-1988, in an edition of 176: handmade Fabriano Roma & cloth for the books numbered 1-150, Roma with a leather spine in an edition lettered A-Z and signed by many contributors. Both were handbound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery ... Presswork was completed 28 February 88 ... The entire edition is signed by the printer. Of the leather books, six are reserved for presentation to friends of the press.
- Edition limited to 176 copies, lettered A-Z and numbered 1-150; all signed by the printer
- Local Notes:
- 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 1983: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck. Edition number 144 of 150.
- OCLC:
- 18824573
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