W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design (Limited Deluxe Edition)
Published by Letterform Archive, San Francisco, 2017
ISBN 10: 0998318019 (ISBN 13: 9780998318011)
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.Rare Books Honolulu
AbeBooks seller since January 18, 2021
Association member: IOBA
Condition: New
US$ 599.00
Quantity: 1 available
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NEW! Letterform Archive, 2017, Hardcover, 496 pages, Over 1,200 Illustrations, 9 × 11 × 1.25 inches. --- --- ---. This deluxe edition of WA Dwiggins: A Life in Design features a specially bound version of the book with a signed and numbered letterpress portfolio, housed together in a slipcase. The deluxe book is bound in Dwiggins-designed decorated paper over boards and a genuine leather spine stamped with Dwiggins ornaments and hand lettering by Richard Lipton. The letterpress portfolio contains 20 pages of Dwiggins’s writings (some never before published), printed letterpress from Linotype. The texts — five essays and two works of fiction, plus a title page and colophon — are set on the Linotype in Dwiggins’s Caledonia, Electra, Eldorado, Metro, and the very rare Falcon, accompanied by an assortment of Caravan ornaments. Twenty-two illustrations, hand-lettered titles, and decorated initials (all made from original Dwiggins pen-and-ink artwork in the files of Boston Public Library) accompany the text, reproduced via high-quality copper photoengravings The portfolio pages are printed by letterpress on Mohawk Superfine, in single sheets and four-page folders. The colophon page is signed by all members of the letterpress production team. The outer portfolio, made from Strathmore Grandee cover, features a Dwiggins ornament blind-embossed on the front cover . --- --- About the Book: Often credited with inventing the term "graphic design," W A Dwiggins was a quintessential maker — fabricating his own tools, inventing techniques, and experimenting with design in areas as wide-ranging as modular ornament, stamps, currency, books, kites, marionettes, and theatrical sets and lighting. More than any of his contemporaries, he united the full range of applied arts into a single profession — designer. Despite this, a thorough study of Dwiggins has never been published until now. W A Dwiggins: A Life in Design offers an engaging and inspiring overview of the designer’s wide-ranging creative output. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design (Limited Deluxe Edition)
- Author
- Bruce Kennett
- Publisher
- Letterform Archive, San Francisco
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- W. A. Dwiggins
- Edition
- Limited Deluxe Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Artbooks, Books about Books, Fine Press, Graphic Design, Limited Editions
Rare Books Honolulu
Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
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Rare Books Honolulu is an online only store. We sell and buy antiquarian rare books, limited editions and also 'new, but out of print' books. We have a growing inventory of Illustrated Literature(mainly 20th century), Art, Architecture, Hawaiiana and Fine Press books from the US and Europe. We ship within 2 days. Due to potential delays with Media Mail from Hawaii, we mainly ship with Priority Mail within the US (at Media Mail prices)
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