Victor Hammer, artist and printer
Publisher:
Anvil Press
Designer:
Mardersteig, Martino
Contents: Who is Victor Hammer? / Rudolf Koch ; translated from the German by Ulrich Middeldorf -- Mezzotints / Ulrich Middeldorf -- Engravings & woodcuts -- Inscriptions & symbols -- Uncial type-faces. Foreword / R. Hunter Middleton. A master of punch-cutting / Hermann Zapf. Documentation of Hammer types / W. Gay Reading, Jr. -- Four presses : a bibliography / Paul Holbrook ; with notes by Carolyn R. Hammer (p. [137]-195) -- A Hammer bibliography / David Farrell (p. [197]-213)
213 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 29 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John
Production date: AD 1981
"This first edition is limited to five hundred and fifty copies (1-500; I-L numbered at the press) Designed by Martino Mardersteig in Dante type and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega"--Colophon. This is copy no. 319.
Bound in cloth
Support composed of paper
Accession number: PB 84-2003
Primary reference Number: 94690
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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