quarter cloth over decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover label, sewn spine
2023 · New York, NY
by Bringhurst, Robert
New York, NY: (Russell Maret), 2023. quarter cloth over decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover label, sewn spine. Maret, Russell. 4to. quarter cloth over decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover label, sewn spine. 50, (3) pages. One of 110 numbered copies signed by Robert Bringhurst. Accompanied by the prospectus. A fine copy.
From the prospectus: "This Wisp of a Thing Called Civilization is a wide-ranging meditation on the relationships between language and the forms we give to it; the oral, scribal, and typographic structures with which we cloth literature; and how these forms and structures simultaneously preserve, alter, (truncated)
From the prospectus: "This Wisp of a Thing Called Civilization is a wide-ranging meditation on the relationships between language and the forms we give to it; the oral, scribal, and typographic structures with which we cloth literature; and how these forms and structures simultaneously preserve, alter, (truncated)