A Type Miscellany: Twentieth Anniversary Broadside Portfolio / The American Printing History Association [APHA]

Identifier:FA.OSS2.0300

Dimensions:[4] p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 36 cm

Creation dates:1994

created at: Greenhouse Review Press, W. Thomas Taylor Private Press, Pentagram Press, Greenwood Press, Yellow Barn Press, Brevier Press, Bullnettle Press, Cary Library Press, Bird & Bull Press, Coffee House Press, Kelly-Winterdon Press, Darell Hyder, The Sun Hill Press, Bowne & Co. Stationers, The Oliphont Press, The Stone House Press, Endgrain Press, Aureole Press, Haybarn Press, Michael Bixler, Winifred Bixler, The Press of the Nightowl, The Stinehour Press

illustrated by: John DePol, Leslie Ross, Ed Colker

printed by: Gary Young, Neil Furqueron, Michael Tarachow, Jack W. Stauffacher, Neil Shaver, Midnight Paper Sales, Harry Reese, Mary Phelan, Corriander Reisbord, Steven Miller, Timothy Geiger, Lowell Bodger, Harold Berliner, Mark Argetsinger, Dwight Anger

Subjects: Boxed sets, Broadsides, Graphic design (Typography), letterpress printing

Description:Unbleached linen clamshell case with embossed and gilt red leather title panel on front cover that contains 28 double-side, letterpress printed broadsides, separate title page and introduction, and a prospectus. "Two hundred copies printed for APHA's Twentieth Anniversary Type Miscellany. Title page and introduction printed by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Designed by Jerry Kelly."--Colophon. Introduction written by Michael Peich. This collection was created "in celebration of [APHA's] twentieth anniversary...the topic of the collection is type, and each designer/printer [has created] a unique broadside celebrating the importance and beauty of type in its multiform applications and manifestations..."--Prospectus.