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Victor Hammer: Artist and Craftsman and Victor Hammer: Artist and Printer. [2 volume limited edition set]. by Rothenstein, John. [Victor Hammer] - 1978 & 1981.

by Rothenstein, John. [Victor Hammer]

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Victor Hammer: Artist and Craftsman and Victor Hammer: Artist and Printer. [2 volume limited edition set]. by Rothenstein, John. [Victor Hammer] - 1978 & 1981.

Victor Hammer: Artist and Craftsman and Victor Hammer: Artist and Printer. [2 volume limited edition set].

by Rothenstein, John. [Victor Hammer]

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Boston & Lexington:: David R. Godine & Anvil Press,, 1978 & 1981.. Large hardcover. 2 vols.. Two volumes. Publishers cloth title black title to spine. Both finely printed at the Stamperia Voldonega by Martino Mandersteig. The first volume is limited to 500 copies this copy unnumbered. The second volume is limited to 550 copies our copy numbered 458. Volume two with minor bump at top corner, else fine. Volume one is fine. Both volumes fully illustrated with color plates. Both books in original slipcase, near fine. Victor Karl Hammer (1882-1967), painter, sculptor, printer and typographer. Engravings. ÒHammer was an artist of remarkable talents and skills: although his primary metier was painting, usually in tempera on gesso panels, and chirfly portraiture, he was also a master of the wood-cut, the mezzotint, and the metal engraving... Victor was master of the book arts: printing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and typography, cutting the punches for five type-faces during his long life.Ó [-Wellsbook Arts Center].
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher David R. Godine & Anvil Press,
  • Place of Publication Boston & Lexington:
  • Date Published 1978 & 1981.
  • Size Large hardcover. 2 vols.
  • Size Large hardcover. 2 vols.

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Victor Hammer: Artist and Craftsman

by Rothenstein, John

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  • Hardcover
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First edition, one of 500 copies printed at Stamperia Valdonega
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Hardcover
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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Boston: Godine, 1981. First edition, one of 500 copies printed at Stamperia Valdonega. Cloth, card slipcase, fine.
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Victor Hammer: Artist and Craftsman

Victor Hammer: Artist and Craftsman

by Rothenstein, John

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Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Slipcase lightly worn.
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First Edition
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780879232276 / 0879232277
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Boston: David R. Godine. Very Good with no dust jacket; Slipcase lightly worn.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0879232277 . Brown cloth binding. One of 500 numbered first edition copies. This is copy no. 34 as denotes on colophon page. Housed in plain brown cardboard sleeve. Color plates. Bookplate of influential publisher and bookseller Frederic Melcher on front pastedown endpaper. A look at the fine art and decorative arts career of Austrian-American artist Victor Hammer. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Victor Hammer: artist and craftsman

by Rothenstein, John

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Rulon-Miller Books
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Boston: David S. Godine, 1978. First edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 423) designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy; 4to, pp. 57, [3], [30]; 26 color plates; sienna cloth, spine stamped in black; matching sienna cloth slipcase; fine. An appraisal of the private commissions and ecclesiastical works of the cosmopolitan artist/craftsman, as well as biographical information. Laid in is a short typed note, signed, from Carolyn Hammer to Greg Campbell thanking him for the order and asking if he could rebind two books. Together with: Hammer, Carolyn. Victor Hammer: artist and printer, Lexington: Anvil Press, 1981. Edition limited to 550 press-numbered copies (this, no. 491), small folio, pp. [14], 5-213, [3]; illustrated throughout; original sienna cloth, publisher's slipcase; fine. Together with: Hammer, Victor. Victor Hammer: an artist's testament. With a foreword by Carolyn R. Hammer, 1988. Lexington: Anvil Press, 1988. Edition limited to 200 copies… Read More
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