Studies in Type Design, Alphabets with Random Quotations
Hardcover
1968 · Hanover, New Hampshire
by Ruzicka, Rudolph
Hanover, New Hampshire: Friends of the Dartmouth Library / [The Meriden Gravure Company], 1968. Hardcover. Fine. Linen-covered portfolio, lettered in black on upper board and spine; in slipcase; contains 10 type specimens (complete alphabets, plus a quotation), each a loose leaf with printed wraps, plus 4 pages of text. Presentation copy, with bookplate of the American Printing History Association on front paste-down. Quotes by Robert Frost, Paul Valery, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Brown, and Henry David Thoreau. A lavish production. (Inventory #: D7999)