Orbis Typographicus

Edité par Prairie Village, Kansas: Crabgrass Press

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Between 1970 and 1980, Hermann Zapf as designer and Philip Metzger as printer worked together on the production of this portfolio of twenty-five quotations. It was a happy collaboration motivated by a mutual interest in how hand-set type looks as printed on a hand press-and since Zapf didn't have to do any of the setting or printing himself, he could specify arrangements that were innovative, wild, and completely impractical. It's amazing what we can do when other people do it for us. Anyway, the quotations are from the writings of Thomas Alva Edison, Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and such whose comments on the Arts and Sciences seemed especially apt. The typefaces used more or less in experimental typography came from the cases of Metger's Crabgrass Press. All but a few were printed on mould-made and hand-made papers from England, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan and, in three cases, from the United States: two on Worthy Hand & Arrow paper, which had not been made for years, and one on a sheet by James Yarnell of Wichita, Kansas, specially for this undertaking. Most were printed in two or more colors. The twenty-five 9 × 12-inch sheets and those for the title and colophon, and another giving details of production, are enclosed in a specially made Plexiglas frame allowing one to be displayed and the rest to be stored behind. The frame may be hung on a wall, or placed on edge or laid flat on a table. In addition, the inner mailing case is designed as a solander with an identifying label on one edge so the portfolio may be stored on a book shelf. An excellent copy of an uncommon item signed by Zapf and Metzger. Fine with prospectus and extra box label 1361 Loose leaves in a plexiglass display box in a further protective cardboard box.…

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Orbis Typographicus
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Prairie Village, Kansas: Crabgrass Press
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1 361 grammes
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9.625 × 12.625 inches

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