Type-Faces

Northridge, CA: Santa Susanna Press, 1988.

Portfolio. 12 13/16 x 9 9/16 inches. Sheets loosely laid in cloth portfolio: v, [2], 12 signed photographs mounted on the rectos, p1, colophon] pp. Half-title, title page, 12 black-and-white photographic portraits of Ritchie, SIGNED AND NUMBERED on the mount by the photographer, SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell on the colophon; text clean, unmarked. All loosely laid-in to a clam-shell box with an aperture design on the front cover by Joseph D'Ambrosio; binding square and tight. LH823-016. Fine.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED to 65 copies, this is copy number 29. Photographs by Amanda Blanco, Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell, "About the Photographer" by Norman E. Tanis (1929-2010), Director of University Libraries at California State University, Northridge, 1969-1991. This portfolio was designed, printed, and produced by Joseph D'Ambrosio using hand set Della Robbia type and a Vandercook No 4 proof press. "Since I knew Ward personally, I tried to make this work portray not only aspects of his career, but also to mirror the warm and sensitive personal side of the man. Lawrence Clark Powell, Ward's longtime friend who wrote the portfolio's foreword, laid the groundwork for this goal. I chose the sequence of photographs from the many Amanda showed me, and wrote the captions to street the man as well as his work." D'Ambrosio.

REFERENCE: D'Ambrosio, A Memoir of Book Design, pp. 102-3. 29 copies OCLC.