Emil Rudolf Weiss : E R Weiss : the typography of an artist /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cinamon, Gerald (Author)
Corporate Author:	Incline Press (Printer)
Other Authors:	Weiss, Emil Rudolf, 1875-1942, Kreiger, Martin, Anagnostakis, Christopher, Moss, Graham, 1947- (Printer)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oldham : Printed and published by Incline Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Weiss, Emil Rudolf, > 1875-1942. Type designers > Germany > Biography. Type and type-founding > Germany > History > 20th century. Book design > Germany > History > 20th century. Typefaces (Type evidence) > Sabon (Monotype)

Description
Item Description:	Date of publication taken from statement in colophon: "the printing not completed until March 2012". Includes multiple mounted samples of Weiss's work. "Two hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed, including twenty with varying additional materials in a separately slipcased matching portfolio"--Colophon. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Bibliography & Book Arts copy is number 96 and is signed on the colophon by Stephen Conway. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Bibliography & Book Arts copy was purchased with additional related titles: E.R. Weiss, the typography of an artist : a new book by Gerald Cinamon [prospectus] (2010) -- The Anagnostakis pocket guide to Austrian, German and Swiss antiquarian bookdealers terminology / Christopher Anagnostakis (2012) -- The visit / Martin Kreiger (2008). Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-175) and index. Purchased for the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive by The Cushing Library.
Physical Description:	178 pages : illustrations, mounted portrait, mounted samples ; 36 cm, in case 37 cm
Bibliography:	"The text faces are Monotype Sabon ..., typeset and cast by Harry McIntosh of Speedspools in Edinburgh ... The paper, Magnani for the book & mostly Zerkall and Hahnemühle for Press reproductions, was all supplied by John Purcell Paper of Brixton in London ... Two hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed, including twenty with varying additional materials in a separately slipcased matching portfolio. Letterpress printing at Incline Press was done by Graham Moss, page by page on a Victoria parallel impression platen, from Rockstroh Werke, circa 1930. ... This copy is for ..."--Colophon.
Related Items:	The Cushing Library/Lowman/Bibliography and Book Arts copy forms part of the Bibliography and Books Arts Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive.