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Fine Print, Vol 9, No 1, 1983

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Content includes:
Book Arts Reporter: The Oxford Conference,
On Type: Robert Bridges, Poet-Typographer
Recent Press Books
The Featured Bookbindings: The Fourteen Faces of Ourika
Reference Shelf
The Book Art of Valenti Angelo: An Homage,
The First Printing Press in America

Cover design by Abe Lerner, New York. Interior typography based on a design by Linnea Gentry, Amaranth Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Composed in Jan van Krimpen’s Monotype Spectrum by Mackenzie-Harris Corp., San Francisco. Engravings by Bill Bratt, Bauer Engraving Co., San Francisco. Letterpress by Wesley B. Tanner & Will H. Powers, Berkeley, California. Offset lithography by Helicon Press, San Francisco.

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  • Format: Magazine
  • Designer/s: Abe Lerner
  • Year: 1983
  • Client/Publisher: Sandra Kirshenbaum
  • Size: 230mm x 310mm

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Fine Print, Vol 9, No 1, 1983
Fine Print, Vol 9, No 1, 1983. Cover design by Abe Lerner
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