Research Catalog

Title

Zapf's Civilité disclosed : adorned with terse & pithy apothegms.

Author

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000.

Publication

[Rockport, Me.] : Formed & printed at the Gehenna Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zapf, Hermann
• Berliner, Harold
• Larson, Arthur, printer.
• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Gehenna Press. prt

Description

[25] leaves : ill.; 31 cm.

Subjects

• Zapf, Hermann
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Zapf Civilité
• Civilité (Type evidence)
• Printers' ornaments > Specimens
• Mottoes
• Type ornaments > Specimens
• Type and type-founding > United States > Specimens
• Aphorisms and apothegms

Genre/Form

• Civilité (Type evidence).
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Zapf Civilité.

Note

• "One hundred and seventy-five copies ... were printed ... The edition is arranged as follows: copies numbered 1-25 are printed on Arnold Vellum ... & contain a woodcut portrait of Hermann Zapf signed & numbered by the artist and a set of pages alternately achieved on Magnani. Copies numbered 26-175 comprise the regular edition. All copies are signed by ... Leonard Baskin"--Colophon.
• "The types were cast by Harold Berliner of Nevada City. Calif. Arthur Larson of Hadley, Mass. composed & printed the book on Magnani, an Italian mould-made paper"--Colophon. Typeface designed by Hermann Zapf.

Source (note)

• 960651

Binding (note)

• Binding: Publisher's green paste paper over gray cloth boards, with red leather spine label, lettered in gold. Issued in gray cloth slipcase with green paste paper edges. "Hand-bound by Claudia Cohen of Easthampton, Mass."--Colophon.

Call Number

*KP+ (Gehenna) 05-98

OCLC

NYPG05-B10579

Author

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000.

Title

Zapf's Civilité disclosed : adorned with terse & pithy apothegms.

Imprint

[Rockport, Me.] : Formed & printed at the Gehenna Press, 1995.

Binding

Binding: Publisher's green paste paper over gray cloth boards, with red leather spine label, lettered in gold. Issued in gray cloth slipcase with green paste paper edges. "Hand-bound by Claudia Cohen of Easthampton, Mass."--Colophon.

Local Note

NYPL has no. 74; signed by Baskin.

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Added Author

Zapf, Hermann, type designer.

Berliner, Harold, typefounder.

Larson, Arthur, printer. Compositor. Printer

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- Binder

Gehenna Press. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Gehenna) 05-98