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LETTERS REDRAWN FROM THE TRAJAN INSCRIPTION IN ROME
Catich, Edward M.
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- Davenport : Catfish Press (1961)
- 8vo.
- cloth.
- xi, 244 pages. With 93 4to. broadside plates, the two sections enclosed in a cloth bound case specially constructed to hold the two different sized parts.
- ISBN none / Order Nr. 41601
- Price: $ 400.00
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With a three page introduction by W.A. Dwiggins followed by the text in the calligraphic handwriting of Catich. Catich has based his work on the original Trajan columns in Rome and included short critiques of the sources of these letters. Dwiggins, in his introduction, states that this work "will be a good tool in art schools - and elsewhere - for renovating standards that have become a trifle frayed in these revolutionary years. It will stimulate a return to an understanding of the true function of letters ..." His words still hold true 40 years later. First plate age yellowed as usual from cloth in case. Signed by Catich on first blank page and he has also added a presentation "to John Michael, E.M. Catich." In addition, the preface has been signed and dated by Dwiggins.
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MATRIX 19
Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 720 copies which are bound in stiff wrappers. This issue of the Matrix contains 24 articles including David Chambers on the Circle Press, Theo Rehak on the Kelmscott Press, John Dreyfus on American Proprietary Typefaces, John DePol on John Fass, John Dodson on German Type Specimens, Roderick Cave on Will Ransom and the Cunninghams, followed by 11 book reviews. Well illustrated with many tipped-in specimens printed on special papers, color plates, wood engravings printed on special paper, etc. Scholarly and finely printed. Minor jacket chipping at top.
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