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- Title
- Alphabeticum / Werner Pfeiffer.
- Author
- Pfeiffer, Werner, 1937-
- Publication
- Red Hook, NY : Pear Whistle Press, 2006.
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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+ (Pear Whistle) 09-189 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Pear Whistle Press. prt
- Description
- 31 sheets ([31] leaves) : chiefly ill.; 34 x 34 cm. +
- Summary
- Symmetric abstract designs created by manipulating the 26 letters of the alphabet in various typefaces.
- "Many of the designs enclosed were originally hand stamped, later enlarged and then cut in linoleum. Others were just drawn, while some were accidental happenings on the proofing press. In 1965, as a collaboration between its Design and Education Departments, the Museum of Modern Art in New York arranged for an exhibition of some of these experiments. At that time, several national and international magazines published articles about this project. Now, four decades later, this is the first time that a sampling of the eighty or so originals is being editioned"--Leaf [2].
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Artists' books – United States.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) – Clarendon.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bembo.
- Note
- "Printed on a Vandercook proof press in a limited edition of 52 signed and numbered copies. Some of the images are pulled from linoleum cuts, others are relief plates made from the original designs and drawings. Paper: Stonehenge, white, 240 lbs. Type: Clarendon, set by hand, with Bembo Italic"--Colophon.
- Pamphlet has title: Addendum; comprises reprints of articles on these designs from Graphis, v. 19 (1963); Typetalks, no. 134 (1964); Gebrauchsgrafik 2 (1966); Print, v. 20 (1966); Who's who in graphic art, v. 2 (1982).
- Binding (note)
- Unbound; issued in gray paper covered clamshell box (36 x 36 cm.) Pamphlet housed in recess in box.
- Call Number
- *KP+ (Pear Whistle) 09-189
- OCLC
- 70665551
- Author
- Pfeiffer, Werner, 1937-
- Title
- Alphabeticum / Werner Pfeiffer.
- Imprint
- Red Hook, NY : Pear Whistle Press, 2006.
- Local Note
- NYPL copy is no. 23; signed by Pfeiffer.
- Binding
- Unbound; issued in gray paper covered clamshell box (36 x 36 cm.) Pamphlet housed in recess in box.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- United States New York (State) Red Hook.
- Added Author
- Pear Whistle Press. Printer
- Research Call Number
- *KP+ (Pear Whistle) 09-189