Hutner, Martin and Jerry Kelly.

A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY, FINE PRINTED BOOKS FROM 1900 TO 1999.

(New York): The Grolier Club, (1999). 4to. cloth. xxx, (ii), 110 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press in an edition limited to two hundred and fifty case bound copies set in Dante type. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Grolier Club catalogue of the 100 most beautiful, finely printed books produced during the 20th century arranged in chronologicial order. "The idea of one book a year, on average, seems almost presumptuous. Yet one must begin somewhere, and..... READ MORE about A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY, FINE PRINTED BOOKS FROM 1900 TO 1999

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(De Beauclair, Gotthard). Kelly, Jerry.

GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN.

With an introduction by Hermann Zapf
New York: The Grolier Club, 2006. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 48 pages. With an introduction by Hermann Zapf. Gotthard de Beauclair was a leading twentieth-century book designer. He produced some of the finest limited edition books through his craft techniques and use of precious materials. He stands as a model of fine bookmaking. This exhibition catalogue reveals his typography and design work for various German publishers. It includes fifteen color and black-and-white illustration and..... READ MORE about GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN

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Kelly, Jerry and Misha Beletsky.

THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS.

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 120, (2) pages. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set of lowercase letters that had evolved from the Carolingian minuscules of the ninth century, Jenson's..... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS

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Kelly, Jerry.

THE CALLIGRAPHY REVIVAL, 1906-2016.

New York, NY: Grolier Club, The, 2017. 9 x 12 inches. Hardcover. 118, [2] pp. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition, held at the Grolier Club May 17-July 29, 2017. Preface by Jerry Kelly, Introduction by Christopher Calderhead, followed by a catalogue of the 88 items in the exhibition, all presented as full page color plates. The word calligraphy comes from the Greek kaligraphia-kallos "beauty" + graphein "to write." It is an art with a...... READ MORE about THE CALLIGRAPHY REVIVAL, 1906-2016

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Kelly, Jerry.

HERMANN ZAPF AND THE WORLD HE DESIGNED: A BIOGRAPHY.

New York: Grolier Club, The, 2019. 6.125 x 9.5 inches. Hardcover. 368 pages. Published to accompany the Grolier Club exhibition "Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf," curated by Jerry Kelly and Steven Galbraith, on show at the Club February 20-April 27 2019, in celebration of the centenary of Zapf's birth. This is the first comprehensive biography of Hermann Zapf (1918-2015), whom Robert Bringhurst has called "the greatest type..... READ MORE about HERMANN ZAPF AND THE WORLD HE DESIGNED: A BIOGRAPHY

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Kelly, Jerry.

TYPE REVIVALS: WHAT ARE THEY? WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

New York: The Typophiles, 2011. 6 x 9 inches. paperback pamphlet. 16 pages. Typophiles Monograph: New Series No. 27 Type Revivals gives the history of type revivals and explores their place in modern type design. By examining some of the earliest type revivals, the definition of a true type revival emerges: it is an adaptation of an old typeface for current production and use, not merely a rote reproduction. With this definition in mind, the..... READ MORE about TYPE REVIVALS: WHAT ARE THEY? WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

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(Typography). Kelly, Jerry.

ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FAMOUS IN TYPOGRAPHY.

New York: Grolier Club, The, 2021. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth. 336 pages. Companion catalogue to the Grolier Club exhibition on view May 12, 2021 through July 31, 2021 Any English student knows the name Gutenberg and the words moveable type go together. That same student may have encountered Garamond, Baskerville, and Bodoni only in Word's dropdown font menu, not realizing that they were named for punchcutters and type designers, who raised the essential work..... READ MORE about ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FAMOUS IN TYPOGRAPHY

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(Zapf, Hermann). Kelly, Jerry.

ABOUT MORE ALPHABETS: THE TYPES OF HERMANN ZAPF.

Foreword by Robert Bringhurst
New York: The Typophiles, 2011. 4.5 x 7 inches. hardcover, slipcase. 112 pages. Foreword by Robert Bringhurst. Deluxe edition signed by the author and limited to 75 copies. Includes four type specimens in a paper folder and a slipcase for the book and specimen folder. Typophiles Chapbook, New Series, 3. "Letterforms are things that nearly all of us in the Western world have learned to take for granted. We treat them much like door knobs..... READ MORE about ABOUT MORE ALPHABETS: THE TYPES OF HERMANN ZAPF

Price: $170.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109481