Research Catalog

Title

Robert Fludd's Creation.

Author

Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637.

Publication

[Colorado Springs, Colorado] : The Press at Colorado College, [1994]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Trissel, James
• Leech, Tom
• Pardue, Karen
• Press at Colorado College, publisher.

Description

24 unnumbered leaves : chiefly illustrations; 38 cm

Summary

Reproduces illustrations from Robert Fludd's Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia.

Uniform Title

Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia

Alternative Title

Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia

Subject

• Creation > Early works to 1800
• Cosmogony > Early works to 1800
• Cosmology > Early works to 1800
• Creation > Pictorial works
• Cosmogony > Pictorial works
• Cosmology > Pictorial works
• Cosmogony
• Cosmology
• Creation

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• Pictorial works.
• Private press books (Publishing) – Colorado – Colorado Springs – 1994.
• Artists' books – Colorado – Colorado Springs – 1994.
• Privately published books (Publishing) – Colorado – Colorado Springs – 1994.

Note

• "Spring, 1994."
• "Robert Fludd's 'Creation' comes about through, first the general impression we had of the engravings in his remarkable two-volume work and then through permission from The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California to reproduce the nineteen plates that this new volume contains. Thanks are also due the Harold E. Berg Endowment for the funds essential to the early phases of the project. We are struck by the fact that the good Dr. Fludd resolved most issues for himeself and his readers by visual means and so this book is intended as a tribute not only to Fludd but also to his two engravers, Johann Theodor de Bry and Matthias Merian the Elder. The graphic image here is a power in its own right, generating light and dark within itself, not through illusion or any other suggestions from without. The Bancroft's excellent photographic department made the prints from which our negatives were in turn produced for us by David Curnutt. Emily Rogers used the negatives to etch the printing plates using our Polimero Platemanker, and they were then printed on a Vandercook Universal II. The paper is Johannot and the type is both Weiss foundry and Adobe's version of the original cutting. Shanan Miller, with early support from Joan Stone, assisted in all the presswork. Tom Leech has made the excellent marbled endpapers and the binding is designed and executed by Karen Pardue at the Avis Bindery" -- colophon.

Binding (note)

• Bound in publisher's tan cloth; title stamped in silver; marbled endpapers; issued with slipcase.

Call Number

Rare Books+ 21-525

OCLC

31965067

Author

Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637.

Title

Robert Fludd's Creation.

Imprint

[Colorado Springs, Colorado] : The Press at Colorado College, [1994]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Bound in publisher's tan cloth; title stamped in silver; marbled endpapers; issued with slipcase. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books+ 21-525 is no. 6 of 40 copies, signed by James Trissell in graphite on the colophon.

Added Author

Trissel, James, printer, publisher.

Leech, Tom, papermaker.

Pardue, Karen, binding designer, binder.

Press at Colorado College, publisher.

Research Call Number

Rare Books+ 21-525