A TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE: An Account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's Collaboration with Robert Gibbings in Producing the Golden Cockerel Edition of "The Four Gospels" in 1931.
by DREYFUS, JOHN
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GRASS VALLEY, California, United States
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California. As New in As New dust jacket. 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 450 copies printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press. 120 pp., frontis; 13,1/8 × 9¼; forty-one numbered reproductions. Type Galliard linotronic, the main title and chapter headings set in Golden Cockerell type at the Rampant Lions Press. Paper machine made. Bound in linen boards, decoration on front cover and title. In plain glassine jacket. Without prospectus. "The Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ(1931) is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of the twentieth century. Locating and utilizing a great many documents, including, for example, the original paste-ups for the entire text, the patterns and punches, sketches and other working papers, John Dreyfus has shed considerable new light on how this superb work was conceived, planned and executed". (Harlan, Two Hundreth Book 51-52) .
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- Seller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8795
- Title
- A TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE: An Account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's Collaboration with Robert Gibbings in Producing the Golden Cockerel Edition of "The Four Gospels" in 1931.
- Author
- DREYFUS, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New in As New dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Book Club of California
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- GRAPHIC, ART, PRINTING, TYPOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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GRASS VALLEY, California
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