Victor Hammer, artist and printer.
Contributors: Hammer, Carolyn Reading.; Anvil Press (Lexington, Ky.); Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Anvil Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Lexington [Ky.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Hammer, Victor Karl, 1882-
Notes: Prepared under the direction of Carolyn R. Hammer.
Companion volumes: Victor Hammer, artist and craftsman / John Rothenstein. 1978; Victor Hammer : an artist's testament. 1988.
"This first edition is limited to five hundred and fifty copies (1-500; I-L numbered at the press)"--Colophon.
LC has copy no. 149.
Table of contents: title: Who is Victor Hammer? / Rudolf Koch ; translated from the German by Ulrich Middeldorf; title: Mezzotints / Ulrich Middeldorf; title: Engravings & woodcuts; title: Inscriptions & symbols; title: Uncial type-faces. Foreword / R. Hunter Middleton. A master of punch-cutting / Hermann Zapf. Documentation of Hammer types / W. Gay Reading, Jr.; title: Four presses : a bibliography / Paul Holbrook ; with notes by Carolyn R. Hammer (p. [137]-195); title: A Hammer bibliography / David Farrell (p. [197]-213)