Sound recordings from the Fine Print records [sound recording]. ca. 1979-1985.

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Sound recordings from the Fine Print records [sound recording]. ca. 1979-1985.

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Tape 1: Ten years of Fine print, talk by Sandra Kirshenbaum, January 30, 1984, Friends of the Book Arts Press Lectures; tape 2: Why buy fine press books? talk by Sandra Kirshenbaum, July 30, 1985, Rare Book School Lectures; tape 3: Adrian Wilson memorial; tape 4: M. Neugebauer, German calligrapher talk, ca. 1979/80; tape 5: Hermann Zapf on print types, 1983.

5 sound cassettes.CD copies: 1 sound disc ; 4 3/4 in.

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Kirshenbaum, Sandra

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Zapf, Hermann

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Hermann Zapf was a master of type design, book design, and calligraphy. Born in Nuremberg in 1918, he began working in publishing as a photo-retoucher, and was inspired to be a letter-designer by an exhibition of Rudolph Koch's works. Zapf became one of the most influential type-designers of the 20th century, with many of his designs passing into common use. From the description of Hermann Zapf papers, 1957-1966. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52316252...

Wilson, Adrian, 1947-....

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Adrian Wilson, born in Michigan in 1923, began his career as a printer in San Francisco in 1944. He at first printed programs and announcements for a theater where his wife, Joyce Lancaster Wilson, was an actress. He designed books for large publishers, but also produced fine limited editions, including work at his own press, The Press in Tuscany Alley. Wilson wrote several major works, including Printing for theater (1957), The design of books (1967), and with his wife The Making of the Nurembe...