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Experimental typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:

Le Livre D'Aubes / Haury, Marthe., 1945

 Item
Identifier: CC-59472-10002547
Scope and Contents

This is a deluxe copy printed on velin du Marais paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1945

Le Livre D'Aubes / Haury, Marthe., 1945

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Identifier: CC-55602-58015
Scope and Contents

Unable to find biography of this poet on internet. This is a copy from the ordinary edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1945

Le Moyen d'Obtenir une Ame d'Oiseau / Righi, Francois ; Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29600-30971
Scope and Contents

This book, based upon a fragment of text by Zorastre, has an experimental typographic layout with several interspersed typographic ornaments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Littera Scripta Manet: A History of the Roman Alphabet / Ellis, Elsi Vassdal ; Zapf H ; Goudy F ; Morison S ; Lubalin H ; Baskerville J ; Peignot C., 1983

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Identifier: CC-14088-14393
Scope and Contents

The author describes the history of the typeface using a layout in which each letter of the alphabet is printed at the top of the page with a different typeface that incorporates text. The traces the history of each letter. Text at the lower half of the page layed out in three columns provides the history of a different typeface, one each to a page. The typefaces include among others, Baskerville, Helvita, Optima, Times Roman, Univers, Bernhard Fashion, Hellena, Casion Openface, Clarendon, Avant Garde, Quadrata, Souvenir, Tiffany, Copperplate Gothic, Bodoni, Serif Gothic, and Brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

One Way Or Another, 1994

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Identifier: CC-20609-21011
Scope and Contents

This publication is the last from John Crombie and Kickshaws because of "waning stamina and resources... The book is a stream of type carrying its cargo of verbal flotsam past occasional islands, meandering between the figure-incrusted embankments." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Oumbigo Ambiguo, 1985

 Item — Box And-Andre: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-24623-25076

pensan / De Campos, Augusto., 1975 - 1991

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Identifier: CC-62097-10004490
Scope and Contents

Letters are printed from large white dots on a blue cloth background. This was a gift from Elisabeth Wahl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975 - 1991

Sequelette du Verbe et Alentour / Chopin, Henri ; Kah, Anne Marie ; Lafabrie, Bernard-Gabriel., 1991

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Identifier: CC-17005-17361
Scope and Contents

This is the deluxe edition of the book that is signed and includes an original typing by Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991