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Walt Whitman's faces : a typographic reading
Author
Title
Walt Whitman's faces : a typographic reading / Barbara Henry ; with an introductory essay by Karen Karbiener.
Published
Jersey City : Harsimus Press, 2012.
Physical Description
17, [16] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Za W596 +S2012H: Copy no 24, signed by the author. Clear plastic dust jacket. Accompanied by prospectus, publisher's card, and folded sheet of 4 prints by the author.
Notes
"Eighty copies were [letterpress] printed from foundry type and linoleum cuts on a Vandercook Proof Press. Most of the text is set in Bulmer from The Dale Guild Type Foundry. Umbra [and Caslon] used for titling ... The book was designed and printed by Barbara Henry."--Colophon.
Limited edition of 80 copies, signed by the author.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2016
Contents
Reading the promise of faces / Karen Karbiener
A printer's landscape / Barbara Henry
Type sizes
A font of type ; Leaf of faces / Walt Whitman.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Visual literature.
Specimens.
Limitation statements (Publishing)
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Bulmer.
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Umbra.
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Caslon.
Artists' books.
Also listed under
Harsimus Press.
United States New Jersey Jersey City.
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