Research Catalog

Title

Paraphs / Hermann Püterschein.

Author

Dwiggins, W. A. (William Addison), 1880-1956

Publication

• New York, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1928.
• Norwood, Massachusetts : The Plimpton Press
• ©1928

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
• Plimpton Press, printer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt

Description

lxxxii pages : illustrations (red); 21 cm

Summary

Speculative short writings purportedly composed by the erudite Dr. Püterschein and presented by the supposititious Society of Calligraphers.

Subjects

• Dwiggins, W. A (William Addison), 1880-1956
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• Society of Calligraphers
• Limitation statements (Publishing)

Genre/Form

• Limitation statements (Publishing)
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Note

• At head of title: Publications of the Society of calligraphers. no. 1; title within red ornamental border; copyright statement from title verso; ornamental illustrations throughout in red; limitation statement from colophon.
• "Alfred A. Knopf, acting in this instance as Publisher for the Society of Calligraphers, has caused 540 copies of this first formal publication of the Society to be printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts, of which number 500 are offered fro sale. All the copies of the edition have been signed by the author, and are numbered."--colophon.
• Rare Book copy: No. 278.

Language (note)

• Text in English.

Contents

Traverse -- Comment on the system of design called dynamic symmetry -- The last mobilization -- Night piece -- Inconclusive incident of Mr. Wang -- The tympanum hypothesis -- Scrapped.

LCCN

28012038

OCLC

• ocm01021251
• 1021251

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries