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CHISWICK PRESS TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK (SAMPLE PAGES).
Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. Sample pages of initial letters, borders & ornaments, etc., extracted from the Chiswick Press type specimen book of 142 leaves and issued as a Christmas keepsake for friends, December, 1984. Most of these examples were designed by Mary Byfield, or Charlotte and Elizabeth Whittingham. A presentation copy from the bookseller,Tony Appleton, who compiled A Handlist of The Writings of Stanley Morison, and also wrote the introductory copy to this booklet "for Bill & Nina Matheson from Tony & Patsy Appleton, Christmas '84."
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WATERMARK
by Brodsky, Joseph
One of only 35 copies for sale (out of an edition of 50). This beautifully produced edition of Watermark was letterpress printed and designed by Peter Rutledge Koch. The paper is Twinrocker Da Vinci, hand-made especially for this edition, with its own watermark designed by Christopher Stinehour & Susan Filter. Robert Morgan's photographs were digitally re-configured by Donald Farnsworth. The photogravure printing plates were made by Unai San Martin and were printed at Magnolia Editions under Donald Farnsworth's supervision. Once printed, the sheets were shipped to Venice, Italy, where the text was printed at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia from Monotype Dante types cast at the Monotipia Olivieri in Milan. The press used was brought to Venice "on loan" from the Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione printing museum in Cornuda. Following the printing, the paper was shipped to the Berkeley studio where the book was bound in papers specially made for this edition by Cave Papers.
First published as Fondamenta Degli Ingurabili, Iosif Brodskij. Translated into the Italian by Ilberto Forty and published by Consortia Venezia Nova, Venezia 1989. Reprinted by arrangement with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. Copyright 1992 by Joseph Brodsky. All rights reserved.
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