Research Catalog

Title

Spring has sproing / design, typography, letterpress: Esther K. Smith, Dikko Faust ; handmade paper, Helen Hiebert.

Publication

NYC : Purgatory Pie Press : Dieu Donné, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Esther K.
• Faust, Dikko.
• Hiebert, Helen.
• Purgatory Pie Press. prt
• Dieu Donné Papermill. ppm

Description

1 sheet; 16 x 46 cm. folded to 16 cm.

Alternative Title

Spring equinox, March 20, 1994, 3:28 pm.

Subject

Artists' books

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States.
• Mechanical works.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bernhard Gothic
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bernahrd Roman.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Gillies.
• Wood types (Type evidence).
• Artists' books.

Note

• A collaborative work proceeding from a workshop conducted by Purgatory Pie Press and Dieu Donné Papermill.
• "Spring equinox, March 20, 1994, 3:28 pm."
• Printed on one side of a sheet cut and folded to produce a stand-alone form with popups alluding to the legend of the egg that may be balanced on end at the spring equinox.

Indexed In (note)

• Purgatory Pie Press cat., 1995

Call Number

*KP (Purgatory) 95-710

OCLC

NYPG96-B506

Title

Spring has sproing / design, typography, letterpress: Esther K. Smith, Dikko Faust ; handmade paper, Helen Hiebert.

Imprint

NYC : Purgatory Pie Press : Dieu Donné, c1994.

Indexed In:

Purgatory Pie Press cat., 1995, p. 20

Local Note

No. 4 of 50 copies printed in pink and light green on handmade saffron yellow Dieu Donné paper, from Grecian, Latin, Gothic and De Vinne wood types and Bernhard Gothic and Roman and Gillies metal types; signed in pencil on verso of sheet by Smith, Faust and Hiebert.

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Added Author

Smith, Esther K.

Faust, Dikko. Printer

Hiebert, Helen. Papermaker

Purgatory Pie Press. Printer

Dieu Donné Papermill. Papermaker

Research Call Number

*KP (Purgatory) 95-710