Studies in Type Design Alphabets with Random Quotations.
by RUZICKA, Rudolph
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About This Item
Hanover, New Hampshire: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1968. 10 broadsides of author quotations designed by Ruzicka using various alphabets each housed in a paper folder. Housed together with title page, introduction by Ruzicka and contents list. Quotation plates printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Folio, original grey portfolio with black lettering and a matching slipcase. A very good copy.||The quotations are from works by Robert Frost, Paul Valéry, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Browne and Henry David Thoreau.
With a ‘Compliments of the American Printing History Association’ book label.|
With a ‘Compliments of the American Printing History Association’ book label.|
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- Title
- Studies in Type Design Alphabets with Random Quotations.
- Author
- RUZICKA, Rudolph
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Friends of the Dartmouth Library
- Place of Publication
- Hanover, New Hampshire
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Rudolph Ruzicka;Alphabets;Type Design Book,Printing & Typography, Lettering & Mss
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