The numerology of wood type
Contributors: Caliban Press
Publisher: Caliban Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: [Ogdensburg], New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Wood types (Printing); Specimens; Type and type-founding; Printing; Numerals
Other titles: Calyban's wood type whimsy, volume 1 :; Numerology
Description: "Initially conceived as a way to document a growing collection of wood type which eventually filled 53 cases with some 75 fonts. Then realizing that there was too much type (not a bad thing), for a single volume showing alphabets, figures, punctuation marks, as well as whole words, I decided to devote the first volume to figures  -- which is what printers generally call numerals or numbers. Volume 2 is planned to be complete alphabets, with volume 3 for words, phrases, and declarations."--Prospectus.
Notes: Limited to 100 numbered and signed copies. Printed with black, silver and red inks from Southern Ink Company on found, left over, and scrap papers that have accumulated at Caliban Press over time. Japan, China, Nepal, India, Spain, France, Germany, England, Canada, Mexico, are all represented -- including Papeterie St-Armand, Montreal. Decorated with a volvelle in the shape of a compass. Prospectus and guide laid in.

Rare Book copy: No. 16

Rare Book copy: Laid-in prospectus and "Calyban's wood type whimsy : a guide to volume 1 : numerology"