A Small Collection of Material of Berkley Artist and Publisher Paul Veres

Berkeley, CA: Calligraphics. Near fine. Paul Veres (1944 - 2024) was born in a Hungarian Jewish famiy during the worst year of WWII in Hungary. After immigrating with his family to New York in 1949 he would eventually move to Berkeley in 1973. A dedicated studio art educator, he would also design various digital typefaces, with fonts inspired by years of hand-drawn calligraphy work. Veres published, as well, under his own imprint - Calligraphics.The first item was a manuscript scrapbook, titled "My Scrap Book" and possibly created as a school project in the 1950s. Richly illustrated and captioned, it pictured explorers, holidays, etc. and ended with a cheerful anthropomorphic American Flag nad the words: "So Long Folks!" (12 1/4 x 9 1/4; pp. [74]; textured green wraps, tied with a string; illustrations and text in ink, pencils, and crayons; light wear - in very good to near fine condition.)The second was a beautiful, fine-press facsimile, published under the Calligraphics imprint and recreated one of the series of 8 chapbooks by artist and author Joseph Crawhall II (1821 - 1896). ("John & Joan; or, a Mad Couple Well Met [Crawhall's Chap-book Chaplets]." 12 x 9 1/4; pp. [1], 4-15, [5], heavy, loose leaves, folded and tipped into each other; blue, pictorial wraps; lithographed illustrations; very minor creasing to corners; in near fine condition).The third was also a facsimile - this one of Benjamin Sands' "Metamorphosis, or, A Transformation of Pictures, with Poetical Explanations, for the Amusement of Young Persons." First published in 1787, the turn-up book would become immensely popular, with over 30 editions being released before the 1820s. (Single sheet of paper, folded to four 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 panels, each panel with upper and lower flaps; illustrated; very minor wear - in near fine condition).