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A border specimen
- Title
- A border specimen / Claire Bolton.
- Author
- Bolton, Claire.
- Publication
- Marcham [Oxford, England] : Alembic Press, 2000.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KP (Alembic) 03-324 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 107 p. : ill. (some col.), 3 mounted samples; 29 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bembo (Monotype).
- Note
- "A limited and numbered edition of 180 copies of which numbers 1-20 are bound in leather and with extra samples tipped in"--Colophon.
- "Text written and keyboarded by Claire Bolton in 12 point Bembo. Type and borders cast by David Bolton on Monotype composition and Super caster. Printed on a Vandercook No. 4 proof press on Rivoli paper at the Alembic Press, Hyde Farm House, Marcham, Oxford, England"--Colophon.
- Printed in black and several colors.
- Errata slip laid in.
- Binding: Publisher's quarter dark blue cloth, gilt, and light blue paper boards, illustrated with a pattern of border specimens printed in dark blue.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The historic use of borders -- Specimens of founders' borders held at the Alembic Press -- Some history of Monotype borders -- Specimens of Monotype border matrices held at the Alembic Press -- Other Monotype borders for which the Press has no matrices -- Appendix 1: A chronology of Monotype border designs -- Appendix 2: Some designers of Monotype borders with year of design, matrix number and name -- Selective bibliography (p. 104-105).
- Call Number
- *KP (Alembic) 03-324
- ISBN
- 0907482775
- OCLC
- 45145079
- NYPG03-B4399
- Author
- Bolton, Claire.
- Title
- A border specimen / Claire Bolton.
- Imprint
- Marcham [Oxford, England] : Alembic Press, 2000.
- Local Note
- NYPL copy is no. "56/180."
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bolton, David (David John)Alembic Press (Oxford, England) Publisher. Printer
- Research Call Number
- *KP (Alembic) 03-324