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CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION DE GRAVURES ANCIENNES ET MODERNES.
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- Paris : Cercle de la Librarie 1881
- 4to.
- half calf with marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands on spine with title and ornament in gilt, marbled endpapers
- (v), 32 pages with an additional 240 plates of illustrations.
- Order Nr. 71321
- Price: $ 2,000.00
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Exhibition catalog limited to 100 numbered copies. (see ATF Catalogue p.2300; Wing Collection p.902). Issued by this French Society of Publishers, Booksellers and Printers to accompany an exhibition of the best of contemporary French printing work. Printed on different kinds of paper using all known contemporaneous printing and illustration techniques, including many examples of color work. With Randeria bookplate. Edges are chipped and worn, leather on cover is considerably scuffed.
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A MEDITATION IN ROME.
by Gehl, Paul F.
Limited to 110 numbered copies of which ten are proofs. Comprises the script from which the author read his address "How Can Type History Be Good History?" to the plenary session of ATypI Roma on September 20, 2002. An exploration of historical honesty in typographic revivalism. Frontispiece foldout color photograph of the Pantheon in Rome. Color illustrations tipped in throughout text. Printed on Hahnemühle Biblio paper by Maret and Nancy Loeber in the digital versions of Rusell's Gremolata and Cancellaresca Milanese typefaces. Covers feature a paper printed from a new metal type ornament designed by Maret, engraved and cast for this book by Micah Currier. Listing of the author's references and credits. Prospectus and card from the publisher laid in.
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