AUGUST ROSENBERGER 1893-1980
by Hermann Zapf; Translated by Lii Wronker
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
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FERNDALE, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Rochester, NY: Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. Dark green cloth gilt, small 4to., 33, (1) pages, illustrated with typographic specimens and facsimiles, one mounted. and with five original leaves with engravings by Rosenberger laid into a folder affixed to the rear pastedown. "A tribute to one of the great masters of punchcutting, an art now all but extinct". One of 125 copies on Rives paper printed from Palatino roman type by David Pankow and Jerry Kelly, most illustrations from the original metal engravings. With five (not four as called for) original leaves and the mounted print of the alphabet, as in the special edition. A fine copy in archival mylar.
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- Bookseller
- Entropy Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008415
- Title
- AUGUST ROSENBERGER 1893-1980
- Author
- Hermann Zapf; Translated by Lii Wronker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection
- Place of Publication
- Rochester, NY
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Zapf, Jerry Kelly
- Bookseller catalogs
- Typography, Private Press;
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