Studies Type Design Alphabets Random by Ruzicka Rudolph (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st Edition. Hard cover, gray linen portfolio in matching slipcase with ten quotations printed on heavy paper, each in a protective sleeve. All clean, bright, and unmarked.

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First Edition. Folio. 10 unbound sheets in boards, slipcase. Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Linen-covered portfolio, lettered in black on upper board and spine; in slipcase; contains 10 type specimens (complete alphabets, plus a quotation), each a loose leaf with printed wraps, plus 4 pages of text. Presentation copy, with bookplate of the American Printing History Association on front paste-down. Quotes by Robert Frost, Paul Valery, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Brown, and Henry David Thoreau. A lavish production.

Condition: Very Good. Hanover, NH: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1968. Folio. 4pp, 10 plates. Very Good book. Near Very Good slipcase. (type, type-founding) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. First edition. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Ten folded sheets in two or three color type, alphabets and varying type formats, the calligraphy chosen suit the varying ten titles and authors. Each sheet housed in their own titled paper portfolio. Also laid-in the prospectus noting sale price of $25.00 per copy. First author is Frost, and last, Henry David Thoreau. Printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Orig. beige cloth portfolio, spine lettered in black. Fine in fine matching slipcase.

Condition: Fine. No jacket. 10 loose small folio-sized samplesin a cloth folder and housed in a slipcase.

Ten broadsides of author quotations designed by Ruzicka using various alphabets. Each broadsheet is housed in its own printed paper folder, and the ten are housed together in the original cloth covered portfolio with black lettering to the upper board, and a matching slipcase, TOGETHER WITH a 4-page 'title page, introduction and contents' folded sheet. Printed by The Meriden Gravure Company. On the front pastedown of the portfolio is the printed and decorated compliments slip of the American Printing History Association. The broadsheet quotations are by the following authors: 1. Robert Frost, from "Two Tramps in Mud Time". 2. Paul Valéry, "La Feuille Blanche" 3. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. 4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria. 5. An inscription found in a guest book of an inn in Chamonix, France. 6. William Shakespeare, Hamlet. 7. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "The Frankeleyns Tale". 8. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "A Font of Type". 9. Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici. 10. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Spring.

Condition: Very Good. 4to 10 folded 4to sheets, "First edition. A brilliantly done piece of calligraphy in which Ruzicka has chosen ten quotations from authors such as Robert Frost, Paul Valery, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and others and rendered each of them in a different calligraphic format. The ten plates are printed by the Meriden Gravure? book.

Folio; 10 separately-printed sheets in a variety of fonts, printed on heavy stock in various colors and laid into printed sleeves, plus title and table of contents, all loosely laid into cloth portfolio and publisher's slipcase; a fine copy. Handsomely reproduced and printed by Meriden Gravure. This copy from the library of Kim Merker, with a bookplate noting "Compliments of the American Printing History Association," a typed letter to Merker from APHA noticing his support for APHA and enclosing a "premium" - likely, this publication.