E.R. Weiss. The typography of an Artist. A Monograph

Copy number '133' of an edition limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the binder. Printed in Monotype Sabon on Magnani paper using a Victoria parallel impression platen; bound in parchment-backed decorated boards by Stephen Conway with silk headband & marker, with buckram & board slip-case, printed paper label. Folio, 360 x 250 mm, pp. 178 + colophon; frontis. portrait and 125 other illustrations, the majority tipped-in with additional colour, including several pamphlets. Together with the accompanying booklet, The Visit by Martin Kreiger, edited and designed by Graham Moss and set in Weiss on his Intertype linecaster by Phillip Driscoll who also printed the text; 145 x 130 mm, pp. [1-6] 7-17 [18-20] with illustrated paper wrappers and matching card slipcase. A book and slipcase in Fine condition. A wonderful celebration of the work of Emil Rudolf Weiss (1875-1942), Jugendstil painter, illustrator, wood engraver, graphic designer and calligrapher. He designed wallpapers, fabrics, furniture, stained-glass, ceramics and murals for ocean liners. This extensive study concentrates on his book and magazine designs, from typography to binding, dust-jacket, endpapers & title-page. Bauer Typefoundry first commissioned type metal ornaments and then three text faces and three sets of display initials. Finally, Cinamon examines the Weiss types in use today with roman & italic fonts available in digital format and as popular as ever. The original German edition of 'The Visit', especially printed, by permission of the author, from Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, was for the participants of the memorial celebration at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin, on 16th January 1943. …