Calligraphics Hands Forms Rendered Twenty Five by Bennett Paul (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is Free of Markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket. In very good black slipcase showing light wear to the extremeties. Oblong 18mo. 4.75 x 7 in. Rust red cloth with blind stamped front board, gold titling to spine, and black paper-covered slipcase titled in silver. With contributions from 25 American calligraphers. NOTE: Publication limited to 800 copies. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Cloth in slipcase. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Oblong 18mo. 4.75 x 7 in. Rust red cloth with blindstamped front board, gold titling to spine, and black paper-covered slipcase titled in silver. Very faint discoloration to endpapers, few very light smudges scattered throughout, otherwise very clean. Excerpts of text from "Graphic Forms" (Harvard University Press, 1949), with contributions from 25 American calligraphers, including Paul Standard, Raymond F. Daboll, Edward Karr, and others.