New York: ITC, April, 1980. large folio. poster. "Understanding of type demands more than the merely superficial knowledge of certain facts: one must rather penetrate into the significant becoming that stretches back over centuries and millenia. - Types are a key to the gate of human understanding. It is the instrument with which man opens for himself the knowledge of nature and of himself, it is like a mirror which, carefully regarded, can reveal the.....
(Verona, Italy: Plain Wrapper Press, 1978). 8vo. brown stiff paper wrappers. Unpaginated (but 4 pages). A Spectrum Specimen. A "keepsake, limited to seventy copies" (Taylor, Item 23). Excellent condition. Contains type specimens and mottos of Sabastian Gryphius, Christopher Plantin, Geofroy Tory, Mark Flynn, Theodore Martens, and Aldus Manutius. Commemorates Abe Lerner's seventieth birthday, September 14, 1978. Very scarce.