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Artist tracts : five collaborative letterpress triptychs

Title: Artist tracts : five collaborative letterpress triptychs / Esther K. Smith, designer-editor ; Dikko Faust, letterprestidigitator.
Publication: NYC : Purgatory Pie Press, c1992-c1994.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	MEMZ (Artists tracks) 09-836	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Purgatory) 95-701	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

4 sheets : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.); 18 x 38 cm. folded to 18 cm. each in portfolio 19 cm.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States.
Broadsides – United States – 20th century.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Copperplate Gothic.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Signal.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bernard Gothic.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Horizon.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Tower.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Craw Clarendon.
Wood types (Type evidence).

Note

Each item printed on both sides of sheet. The fifth "tryptich" is the portfolio, printed from Copperplate Gothic type, with lettristic ill. from Marmo-Set wood type on both sides of the sheet (which opens to 44 x 37 cm.), overprinted on the outside with Day-Glo hand-marbling by Lauren Rowland.
Title from inside of portfolio.

Indexed In (note)

Purgatory Pie Press cat., 1995

Contents

No. 1. Window pain / by Melinda Beck ; linocut & letterpress by Dikko [Faust]. Printed in red, white and blue from Signal and Bernard Gothic types on dye-cut gray Esse paper--no. 2. Child at the mercy of its arbitrary will / J. Nebraska Gifford ; Dikko Faust, typographer. Printed in black, red and gold from Horizon type on Rives de Lin paper. Ill. are photomechanical reproductions after Dürer and others--no. 3. Lunatic rage afar / Wim Huurman. Entirely woodcut; printed in blue, yellow and white on salmon Esse paper--no. 4. Fandango / Laura Murawski ; letterpress by Dikko. Printed in vermillion and cerulean from Tower, Signal and Craw Clarendon types, Antique Outline, Grecian, Roman and Trafton wood types and collagraph plates on cream Rosaspina paper.

Call Number

*KP (Purgatory) 95-701

OCLC

34378526
NYPG96-B509

Title

Artist tracts : five collaborative letterpress triptychs / Esther K. Smith, designer-editor ; Dikko Faust, letterprestidigitator.

Imprint

NYC : Purgatory Pie Press, c1992-c1994.

Indexed In:

Purgatory Pie Press cat., 1995, p. 4

Local Note

No. 71 of 250 copies printed; portfolio signed in pencil on inside by E.K. Smith and Dikko Faust and on both sides by the marbler, Lauren Rowland. Each of the 4 items contained in portfolio is signed or initialed in pencil by the respective artist.

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Added Author

Smith, Esther K.

Faust, Dikko. Printer

Rowland, Lauren.

Beck, Melinda.

Gifford, J. Nebraska, 1939-

Huurman, Wim.

Murawski, Laura.

Purgatory Pie Press. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP (Purgatory) 95-701

MEMZ (Artists tracks) 09-836

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