LETTERS REDRAWN FROM THE TRAJAN INSCRIPTION IN ROME.
- Davenport: Catfish Press, (1961).
- 8vo.
- cloth, later cardboard slipcase.
- xi, 244 pages. With 93 4to. broadside plates, the two sections enclosed in a cloth bound case specially constructed to hold the two differently sized parts.
Price: $300.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 6377
With a three page introduction by W.A. Dwiggins followed by the text in the calligraphic handwriting of Catich. Signed and dated by Dwiggins after his introduction. This copy is additionally inscribed in ink by Edward M. Catich on the front free endpaper for Dr. & Mrs Jules Stein. Minor wear to the upper front hinge, minor rubbing to the boards and spine, else a near fine copy.
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.