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Signum et verbum

Title: Signum et verbum / Aleksis Rannit ; translations from the Estonian by Henry Lyman ; woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky.
Author: Rannit, Aleksis.
Publication: New Rochelle, N.Y. : Elizabeth Press for Liz Pub Ltd. and for Stamperia Valdonega, Verona [Italy], c1981.

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Description

43, [4] p. ; ill.; 25 cm.

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Centaur.

Note

32 copies designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed by Stamperia Valdonega on Magnani rag paper from Monotype Centaur type. Copy G of 26 lettered copies; signed by the designer, the artist, the translator and the poet. There was also a trade edition.
"Excepting 'Naum Gabo' which reappears here in the author's original English, the poems ... are translations from the Estonian"--P. [45].
Pages [1-2] blank.
Illustrations: 2 prints : woodcut, gray on white ; full-page.
Binding: Publisher's quarter vellum, gilt, and gray paper boards; issued in slipcase.

Call Number

Berg Coll 92-273

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Author

Rannit, Aleksis.

Title

Signum et verbum / Aleksis Rannit ; translations from the Estonian by Henry Lyman ; woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky.

Imprint

New Rochelle, N.Y. : Elizabeth Press for Liz Pub Ltd. and for Stamperia Valdonega, Verona [Italy], c1981.

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Lyman, Henry.

Hnizdovsky, Jacques, 1915-

Stamperia Valdonega. Printer

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 92-273