Broadside vignettes /
Morris, Henry,1925-
Bird & Bull Press.
Newtown, PA : Bird & Bull Press,
c1997.
"Broadside vignettes: Volume 1" --Booklet cover.
Label with title affixed to front of clamshell box.
"Broadside vignettes: the poster/broadside format joined with the book" --Booklet t.p.
Announcement laid in.
"A new art form evolved from the best traditions of the finely-printed book and broadside" --Announcement.
Each broadside (or group of broadsides for those with additional related sheets) enclosed in folded paper wrapper with title in lower right corner.
"145 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press on a great variety of foreign and domestic papers, most [from] Legion Paper Corp...An even greater variety of types were used...The border on the title page is from the 'Cocktail' series designed by Prof. Albert Finsterer for Klingspor in 1955." --Colophon. and binding." --Colophon.
"With the exception of Broadside No. 1, all the text up to 24-point, and some of the larger types, were set by Golgonooza Letter Foundry.  The black-and-white and color photos were made by Trice Photographics, the photo-engravings by Owosso Engravers, and Campbell-Logan Bindery provided the clamshell box." --Colophon.
Paul Wakeman's SP-20 Vandercook and the Bangkok boogie-buster -- A lively look at papermaking -- Vandercook/The great American proof press -- La Relieuse/Charles Meunier's Plaquette, 1900 -- Benjamin Franklin/He did well by doing good -- Boxiana, I -- Tom Sayers: Boxiana II -- Jan Luiken's Book of trades -- Charley Clappison and the fortunes of war -- The last American wood type and brass circle maker; Appendix to no. 10/Curse of the Oval Office? -- Ars typographia/Homage to Gutenberg: so long, hot metal man -- Diderot's great encyclopedia comes in different sizes -- T. C. Hansard's typographic note for The Bank of England -- Asher B. Durand's funny money -- Kamisuki Chohoki/A handy guide to papermaking: (Four sheets) -- Alexander Wilson/The foresters -- With the IPH in Fabriano, 1976: (Two sheets) -- Thank you, Messrs. Blades, Longman, Jehne & Wronker for sending your Numismata typographia to auction -- A tribute to Leonard Schlosser -- The incomparable Dard Hunter & Son -- Another appendix.
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