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

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Identifier: FA.OSS2.0300
Collection: Fine Art Collection
Object type: Broadsides
Dimensions: [4] p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 36 cm
Creation dates: 1994
Also created by: Carl Purington Rollins Printing Office of Yale University
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
Designed by: Jerry Kelly
Edited by: Michael Peich
Illustrated by: John DePol, Leslie Ross, Ed Colker
Paper made by: David Pankow
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
Published by: American Printing History Association
Was created in: New York City
Subjects: Boxed sets, Broadsides, Graphic design (Typography), letterpress printing
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.