Liber librorum 1955.
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | "A common manifestation on the part of leading book designers all over the world to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Gutenberg 42-line Bible. Each participant has designed and printed ... his individual solution of the typographic problem of the Bible ... Two hundred copies are presented to leading libraries, churches and other learned institutions in various countries. Five hundred copies are for sale ... A set of photographs showing most of the participating designers ... is included in those sets which are presented to libraries, museums and other learned institutions"--P. [1]-[2] of pamphlet. Title from pamphlet cover. Contains 1 unpaged pamphlet, 42 printing specimens, and (in 200 of the 700 copies) 33 portraits. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Bibliography and Book Arts copy does not contain the pamphlet. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 portfolio ; 33 cm. |
| Related Items: | The Cushing Library copy forms part of the Bibliography and Book Arts Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive. |