Victor Hammer: Artist and Craftsman; Victor Hammer, Artist and Printer by Rothenstein, John - 1978

Boston: David R. Godine, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Golden-rod silk cloth, slipcase, 4to., 57, (1) + 19 color plates. One of 500 numbered copies designed and printed by Martino Mardersteig from Dante type at the Stamperia Valdonega. Slightly bowed, else a near fine copy in a tight-fitting card slipcase with one tear.

Boston: David R. Godine [1978]. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 57 pp., incl. text & list of plates followed by 26 color plates divided into 3 sections: Portraits, Biblical and Mythological Paintings, and The Kolbsheim Chapel; 4to; gold cloth, in slipcase. Fine condition in like slipcase. First Edition, no. 258 of 500 copies. .

Boston: Godine, 1981. First edition, one of 500 copies printed at Stamperia Valdonega. Cloth, card slipcase, fine.

Boston: David R. Godine. Very Good with no dust jacket; Slipcase lightly worn.. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0879232277 . Brown cloth binding. One of 500 numbered first edition copies. This is copy no. 34 as denotes on colophon page. Housed in plain brown cardboard sleeve. Color plates. Bookplate of influential publisher and bookseller Frederic Melcher on front pastedown endpaper. A look at the fine art and decorative arts career of Austrian-American artist Victor Hammer. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: David R. Godine, 1978. First edition, number 242 of 450. 57 pp., 26 plates, [1, printer's imprint]. 1 vols. 4to. Original gold cloth. Fine in slipcase. First edition, number 242 of 450. 57 pp., 26 plates, [1, printer's imprint]. 1 vols. 4to. Important and abundantly illustrated study of the life and work of Austrian-born artist and typographer Victor Hammer (1882-1968), whose works include the Kolbsheim Chapel in Alsace, France; numerous portraits; and designs for private press imprints over four decades. Hammer's portrait of his friend Thomas Merton (destroyed by fire) is reproduced. These two volumes are limited editions designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega.

Boston & Lexington:: David R. Godine & Anvil Press,, 1978 & 1981.. Large hardcover. 2 vols.. Two volumes. Publishers cloth title black title to spine. Both finely printed at the Stamperia Voldonega by Martino Mandersteig. The first volume is limited to 500 copies this copy unnumbered. The second volume is limited to 550 copies our copy numbered 458. Volume two with minor bump at top corner, else fine. Volume one is fine. Both volumes fully illustrated with color plates. Both books in original slipcase, near fine. Victor Karl Hammer (1882-1967), painter, sculptor, printer and typographer. Engravings. ÒHammer was an artist of remarkable talents and skills: although his primary metier was painting, usually in tempera on gesso panels, and chirfly portraiture, he was also a master of the wood-cut, the mezzotint, and the metal engraving... Victor was master of the book arts: printing, bookbinding, calligraphy, and typography, cutting the punches for five type-faces during his long life.Ó [-Wellsbook… Read More

Boston: David S. Godine, 1978. First edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 423) designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy; 4to, pp. 57, [3], [30]; 26 color plates; sienna cloth, spine stamped in black; matching sienna cloth slipcase; fine. An appraisal of the private commissions and ecclesiastical works of the cosmopolitan artist/craftsman, as well as biographical information. Laid in is a short typed note, signed, from Carolyn Hammer to Greg Campbell thanking him for the order and asking if he could rebind two books. Together with: Hammer, Carolyn. Victor Hammer: artist and printer, Lexington: Anvil Press, 1981. Edition limited to 550 press-numbered copies (this, no. 491), small folio, pp. [14], 5-213, [3]; illustrated throughout; original sienna cloth, publisher's slipcase; fine. Together with: Hammer, Victor. Victor Hammer: an artist's testament. With a foreword by Carolyn R. Hammer, 1988. Lexington: Anvil Press, 1988. Edition limited to 200 copies… Read More

Boston & Lexington, KY: D. R. Godine, 1978. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Quartos, 57, 213 pages, quarter brown morocco, brown cloth covered boards, in matching cloth slipcase. These are copies XXXII of 50 deluxe copies of printings of 500 and 550 copies. The second title carries the imprint of The Anvil Press, 1981. Both volumes were designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at his Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy. These two companion volumes were later joined by VICTOR HAMMER: AN ARTIST'S TESTAMENT. Sir John Rothenstein was the Director of London's Tate Gallery. His volume includes 19 color plates. Hammer''s volume includes bibliographies of Victor Hammer, and his four presses.

Boston: David Godine, [1978], and Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1981.. Two volumes. Quarto. Quarter publisher's leather and cloth. Plates (some in color), illustrations and facsimiles. Spine stamping on one volume a bit tarnished, otherwise about fine. First editions, limited issues, of these two complementary works, limited to fifty sets press-numbered in Roman, specially bound, from editions of 500 and 550 copies respectively, elegantly printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. A tribute to one of the multi-gaited masters of the 20th century, including a bibliography of the four presses with which Hammer and heirs were associated. This set is not accompanied by the envelope of ephemera that was issued with the deluxe sets.