The Vico collaboration. New science
Subtitle: Principles of new science of Giambattista Vico concerning the common nature of nations
By: [photographs by Dennis Letbetter ; prints by Jack W. Stauffacher].
Contributors: Stauffacher, Jack Werner.; Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.); Williams Printing Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Vico, Giambattista, -- 1668-1744. -- Pictorial works.; Photography, Artistic.; Letterpress printing.; Graphic arts.; Type and type-founding -- Specimens.
Genres: Pictorial works.; Specimens.
Other titles: New science
Notes: Title from title leaf, which includes also a mounted reproduction of the illustration by Domenico Vaccaro used as a frontispiece to the 3rd ed. of Principi di una scienza nuova, 1744.

Broadside (1 leaf : mounted photo. ; 36 x 46 cm.), laid in, containing the essay, "Aromas of the divine liqueur," by Enrico Tallone, translated by James Cummings. Photo. by Dennis Letbetter. Handset in Kis and Méridien types and printed in landscape format.

Limited ed. of 20 copies, signed by the printer and the photographer.

Stauffacher prints made at the Greenwood Press from wooden letters formerly used by the Williams Printing Co. of San Francisco.

Text for the portfolios handset in Méridien types and printed by Jack Stauffacher.

A subsequently issued book, also called The Vico collaboration (Greenwood Press, 2004), provides additional information on the project.

Library has suite no. 6 of the photos., suite no. 10 of the prints, and no. 3 of the broadside.
Table of contents: value: Portfolios.; value: Portfolios. -- Dennis Letbetter ([14] leaves : 12 photos. ; 46 cm.); value: Portfolios.-- Dennis Letbetter ([14] leaves : 12 photos. ; 46 cm.)-- Jack Stauffacher ([13] leaves : 10 col. ill. (prints) ; 46 cm.).