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
Created at: Winifred Bixler, The Stinehour Press
Designed by: Jerry Kelly
Edited by: Michael Peich
Illustrated by: Ed Colker
Printed by: Harry Reese, Mary Phelan
Published by: American Printing History Association
Was created at: 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.