Sherwood Grover & James D. Hammond compile & edit A commonplace book with something for everybody.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aptos & Woodside [Calif.] :
[publisher not identified],
MCMLXIX [1969]
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| Item Description: | Selections exhibiting various type faces. "Witness this fifth commonplace book from the Grace Hoper Press ... There is no pattern to the selections here nor in the order of their arrangement ... In 'Notes on the type &c.' at the end of the book, types are identified by foundry as well as by name"--Printer's note. "The Press's fifth commonplace book"--Private press books 1969, page 24. "200 copies printed on mould made paper from W.S. Hodgkinson of England. Done at the Grace Hoper Press in Aptos California in September 1969. 100 copies printed on Curtis Tweedweave which are not for sale"--Colophon. "Notes on the type &c." (pages 51-[54]). Letterpress printed in three colors. Sewn on tapes and bound in decorated paper over boards with cloth spine. "A Commonplace Book" stamped in gilt on spine. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy is inscribed to Al Lowman and was received with Rub for rub and A portrait of three musical printers. |
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| Physical Description: | 6 unnumbered pages, 53 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 33 cm. |
| Awards: | Western Books Exhibit 1970. |
| Related Items: | The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive. |