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The fragments of Parmenides & an English translation

Title: The fragments of Parmenides & an English translation / by Robert Bringhurst ; wood engravings by Richard Wagener.
Author: Parmenides.
Publication: Berkeley [Calif.] : Editions Koch, 2003.
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Description

[53] p. : ill.; 42 cm.

Uniform Title

Nature. English & Greek

Alternative Title

Nature.
Parmenidēs
Fragments of Parmenides and an English translation

Subjects

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Parmenides.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Dante (Monotype)
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Diogenes.
Livres d'artistes – United States – 21st century.

Note

"There are 146 copies in all ... 120 numbered copies were bound by Peggy Gotthold in quarter leather and Hahnemühle Bugra paper protected by a case that is covered in Japanese silk. Twenty-six copies, lettered A to Z, were bound in full leather by Daniel Kelm and enclosed in a dropback box. Each lettered copy includes a boxed suite of ten signed wood engravings by Richard Wagener and a type specimen sheet of the Diogenes and the Parmenides types"--Colophon. An additional 20 copies, not offered for sale, comprise the "contributor's edition"; cf. Prospectus.
"Designed by Peter Koch and printed by hand on Zerkall paper at Peter Koch Printers ... The wood engravings were printed by the artist. The main text was set by hand at the press in Parmenides Greek. The translation was set in Monotype Dante at the Golgoonoza [sic] Letter Foundry, Ashuelot, New Hampshire. The Greek type on the cover is Diogenes. The afterword, which was printed from polymer plates, was electronically composed in Dante roman and italic with New Hellenic Greek and Lazurski Cyrillic. Two of these typefaces were designed especially for this edition. Christopher Stinehour designed the Diogenes Greek in digital format at his stonecutting studio in Berkeley. Dan Carr designed and cut the Parmenides Greek by hand in steel, struck and justified the matrices and cast the type at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry"--Colophon.
Illustrations: 5 prints : wood engraving, b&w (1), red and black (2), red and orange (2) ; full-page (image 18 x 13 cm.).
"Afterword: the poetry of philosophy and the survival of pagan thinking": p. [41-51].
Includes concordance (p. [52]).

Language (note)

Greek and English on opposite pages.

Binding (note)

Publisher's quarter red leather and Hahnemühle Bugra paper boards, executed by Peggy Gotthold at Foolscap Press; issued in orange Japanese silk-covered folding case with red leather spine label.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2003 12-34

OCLC

54911778

Author

Parmenides.

Title

The fragments of Parmenides & an English translation / by Robert Bringhurst ; wood engravings by Richard Wagener.

Imprint

Berkeley [Calif.] : Editions Koch, 2003.

Edition

[Numbered ed.]

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 25/120; signed in pencil by Peter Koch, Robert Bringhurst and Richard Wagener.

Language

Greek and English on opposite pages.

Binding

Publisher's quarter red leather and Hahnemühle Bugra paper boards, executed by Peggy Gotthold at Foolscap Press; issued in orange Japanese silk-covered folding case with red leather spine label.

Local Note

Prospectus ([4] p.) and related material (2 postcards illustrating the 2 bindings with publication announcement on verso; prospectus for a companion vol.) in publisher's envelope, laid in.

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Place of Publication

United States California Berkeley.

Added Author

Bringhurst, Robert, translator.

Wagener, Richard, wood engraver

Koch, Peter Rutledge, book designer.

Peter Koch, Printer, printer.

Stinehour, Christopher, type designer.

Carr, Dan, 1951-, type designer.

Gotthold, Peggy, binder.

Golgonooza Letter Foundry, compositor.

Spine Title

Parmenidēs

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2003 12-34

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