Includes bibliographical references. "Bound using a modified Bradel binding ... "--Artist's blog, viewed Jan. 10, 2012. "Designed and printed by Russell Maret. The paper was handmade with two custom watermarks at Velke Losiny, Czech Republic. The type and images were predominantly printed from photopolymer plates with the exception of Iohann Titling, Nicolas, and Lisbon Ornaments which were printed from new foundry type manufactured by Micah Currier at the Dale Guild Type Foundry. The image on the Aeschylus page was drawn directly on the page with candle smoke. The binding was designed and executed by Craig Jensen at Book Lab II"--Colophon. "Seventy copies were made. Fifty-five copies, numbered 1-50 and AP1-AP5, are bound in quarter leather with paper covered boards printed from foundry Lisbon Ornaments. Fifteen copies, lettered A-O, are bound in full leather using two different skins. They are accompanied by a suite of prints and a form of Iohann Titling type"--Colophon. Library copy is 33 and signed by the artist. IaU
Contents:
Display settings -- Text settings. The arrival of Candide and his manservant in Eldorado, & what they saw there / Voltaire (trans. Roger Pearson; set in Baskerville Great Primer) ; The planning of temples / Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (translated by Frank Granger; set in Saturn & Saturn Shadow) ; On the profligacy of Marcus Antonius as described by Marcus Tullius Cicero in his second philippic / excerpted and newly translated by Ann Vasaly (set in Cancellaresca Milanese Formata and Iohann Titling) ; On the usefulness and origin of writing / by Joaquim Jozé Ventura da Silva (English'd by Russell Maret; set in Texto Portuguez, Ventura Italic, Gotica Italica, and Evora Ornaments) ; The impurity of pleasure / Mark Strand (set in Strand Serif and Van Krimpen Titling) -- Notes on the alphabets.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)769420034
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.