Eclectic geometric, or, Lunch with Nicolete
Subtitle: twenty-six letters rendered with compass & straightedge
By: by Russell Maret.
Contributors: Loeber, Nancy.; Gray, Nicolete, 1911-; Maret, Russell, printer.; Russell Maret (Firm); Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Russell Maret
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Writing -- History.; Lettering.; Alphabets.; Calligraphy -- New York (State) -- New York.; Calligraphy -- Specimens.; Artists' books.; Manuscripts, American -- New York (State) -- New York.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Eclectic geometric; Lunch with Nicolete
Notes: Manuscript calligraphic alphabet, for which the artist drew his inspiration from letter forms of the past 1700 years. Drawings were intended to portray the spirit of each letter at a particular historical moment of its life.
Colophon: " ... designed, drawn and printed by Russell Maret, and painted by him and Nancy Loeber. Each letter is drawn with pencil, liquid watercolor and india ink, and then painted with gouache on Fabriano Artistico paper. The type on the title page and colophon is based on the typefaces of Fournier le Jeune ... The regular edition consists of eight signed and numbered copies ... [Signed] Russell Maret."
Leaves are unbound, interleaved with glassine guard leaves; issued in a black linen-covered clamshell box, with white paperboard spine label printed in black: "Eclectic geometric."
LC copy is copy 2, colophon signed: "Russel Maret".