Quarter black cloth with spine label and handmade Roma paper-covered boards, 8vo., (44) pages, seven linocuts by Gregor Campbell, a mounted paper specimen and a mounted photograph. Features quotes by Paul Hayden Duensing, Harry Duncan, Crispin Elstead, Eric Gill, and many others, printed in as many as eight colors. One of 150 numbered copies designed, printed and signed by Michael Tarachow on Arches Wove paper with 53 different handset typefaces and requiring 112 press runs to complete, amounting to nearly 28,000 impressions. Loosely inserted are an advance notice sheet for the book, a bookmark with a wood engraving by John Depol, and a a two page TLS from Tarachow discussing the long awaited completion of the book ("Picked up the first copies, literally, 3 hours ago from the binder"{Campbell-Logan}). A fine copy in archival mylar.

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Title

THE PENTAGRAM PRESS COMMONPLACE BOOK A Selection of Typographic Interpretations

Publisher

Pentagram Press, Minneapolis, Mn.

Publication Date

1988

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Fine

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Signed by the Printer

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Entropy Books has issued occasional catalogues and lists over the last 33 years. We specialize in books on books, a wide field encompassing typography, graphic design, bibliography, printing, publishing, binding and papermaking; and fine printing from the 1920s to the present, private presses, small press poetry and printed ephemera. I have experience as a publishers representative and have worked in used and new bookstores.

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