As in queen
Subtitle: (the abecedarium of a typophiliac)
By: Leda Black
Contributors: Palabra Press
Publisher: Palabra Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Providence [R.I.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Type and type-founding; Type and type-founding in art; Artists' books; Specimens
Other titles: Abecedarium of a typophiliac
Notes: Limited edition of 100 copies.

Rare Book copy: No. 33.

"[P]rinted letterpress from foundry type and polymer plates using 27 typefaces ... on Somerset paper with a Vandercook SP-20 and a Heidelberg Windmill"--Colophon.

Accordion binding with fore-edges glued. Covers are printed paper over boards. Paper wrapper with letterpress text: "Lay open this book and you will see typophilia undisguised, a quaint affliction illustrated by mesostich paeans to the queen of letters." The words line up so that letters spell out the title on the spine.