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BEATRIX POTTER & PETER RABBIT: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF GROLIER CLUB MEMBERS
Lasner, Mark Samuels
The Tale of Peter Rabbit celebrated its one hundredth anniversary on December 2001. As one of the most popular children's books of all time, the Grolier Club recognized its publication in its exhibition held from November 15, 2001 to January 11, 2002. The exhibition emphasized original artworks with a sampling of books, manuscripts, and autograph letters. The first three editions of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, contained letters to Eric and Noel Moore (for whom the story was written), and an original Peter Rabbit doll are included. The catalogue was designed by Mark Samuels Lasner and printed by Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press.
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SO LONG, HOT-METAL MEN
by de Nova Villa, Henricus
Limited to an edition of 140 numbered copies. This book represents a full year of daily work creating a type specimen book that not only shows type faces ranging from the very rare to the common but also contains wonderful Henry Morris quotes composed in type. While there are serious entries, many, if not most, exhibit Morris's finely-tuned humor. How often does one get immense reading pleasure, to say nothing of a good laugh, from an exquisitely executed type specimen book? The alphabets shown range from the gargantuan 84-pt. to a miniscule 4-pt. There is ornamental material from the last days of the great German type founders, which is rarely seen in American private presses, much of which was designed by Hermann Zapf and others of equal ability. "I've seen many of the type specimen books of the twentieth century and I believe I have come up with a novel way of doing this. I predict the idea will be copied, but this is the original and no serious collection should be without it." (from the prospectus). Set in numerous types printed on Frankfurt paper.
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