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Hoofdletters, Twelling- En Meerling Druk; Capital Letters, Twin- And Multiple print / Van Den Burgh, G.., 1958

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Identifier: CC-41068-43049

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Scope and Contents

Hoofdletters are discussed in Eye Vol.12 No.47. This book contains the supplement published in 1960. The basic premise of the printing process advocated in this book is to save paper. This is accomplished by using solely capital letters, decreasing type size for punctuation marks, decreasing type size and space between lines, inverting alternating lines of text for reading upon reversing top and bottom of page and using overprinting in colors that can be filtered out with colored eyeglasses. The ease of reading is promoted on the compact pages by means of acetate pages with white silkscreened bars to enable viewing in the clear areas only. Several examples are provided in this book. In addition, the printing methods are used to reduce the pages in Jules Verne's Dr. Ox. One booklet has the usual uppercase and lowercase letters, the other two examples of the new printing methods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1958

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover loose leaf notebook + 183 pages (letterpress) + 27 pages (acetate, silkscreen) + insert front cover (red paper plastic filter eyeglass, green paper plastic filter eyeglass) + insert back cover (3 booklets, 3 folded offset sheets)) ; 26.7 x 18.2 x 3.6 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

shelf second bedroom alcove

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Haarlem, The Netherlands : H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon N.V.. Nationality of creator: Dutch. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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