Zapf's civilité disclosed
Subtitle: adorned with terse & pithy apothegms.
Contributors: Zapf, Hermann.; Gehenna Press.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Formed & printed at the Gehenna Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: [Rockport, Me.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Type ornaments -- Specimens.; Mottoes.; Printers' ornaments -- Specimens.; Type and type-founding -- United States -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Typeface designed by Hermann Zapf.
"One hundred and seventy-five copies ... were printed ... The edition is arranged as follows: copies numbered 1-25 are printed on Arnold Vellum ... & contain a woodcut portrait of Hermann Zapf signed & numbered by the artist and a set of pages alternately achieved on Magnani. Copies numbered 26-175 comprise the regular edition. All copies are signed by the former of these designs, Leonard Baskin"--Colophon.
Copies 1-25 issued in a solander case (33 cm.).
LC has copy no. 23, inscribed "In memory of Peter Van Wingen, a true friend of the Gehenna Press, from its principals Lisa & Leonard Baskin & Kenneth Shure, Jan. 1996." Accompanied by a prospectus.