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Author:

Henry, Barbara, creator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81051752

Title:

Walt Whitman's faces : a typographic reading / Barbara Henry ; with an introductory essay by Karen Karbiener.

Edition:

[Regular edition.].

Publisher:

Harsimus Press Jersey City,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

17 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Subject:

Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892.--Leaves of grass.
Type and type-founding--Specimens.
Printing--New Jersey--21st century--Specimens.
Type and type-founding in art.
Artists' books--Specimens.
Artists' books.
Printing.
Type and type-founding.
Type and type-founding in art.
New Jersey.
2000-2099
Specimens.
Limitation statements (Publishing)
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Bulmer.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Umbra.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Caslon.
Artists' books--New Jersey.

Other Authors:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79081476
Karbiener, Karen, 1965- author of introduction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003085761
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Font of type. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013074971
Special Collections copy Reed, Kendall (Physician), former owner. IaU http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019024134
Harsimus Press, printer. printer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015034048

Notes:

"Eighty copies were [letterpress] printed from foundry type and linoleum cuts on a Vandercook Proof Press. Most of the text is set in Bulmer from The Dale Guild Type Foundry. Umbra [and Caslon] used for titling ... The book was designed and printed by Barbara Henry."--Colophon. Limited edition of 80 copies, signed by the author. Special Collections copy Copy number 43, signed "B. Henry." IaU

Contents:

Reading the promise of faces / Karen Karbiener -- A printer's landscape / Barbara Henry -- Type sizes -- A font of type ; Leaf of faces / Walt Whitman.

Summary:

"Walt Whitman's poem "Faces" is presented as a printer's specimen, with a variety of typefaces illustrating Whitman's theme. It contains two essays on the poem by Barbara Henry and Karen Karbiener. Set by hand in foundry type and illustrated with images of the poet cut in linoleum and two digitally-printed photographs."--Publisher's website.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)800727383

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)