The Vico collaboration : Vico photograph portfolio #8, Vico wooden letters portfolio #16, "New Science" broadside #10, and Divine Liqueur #6, 2003.

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The Vico collaboration : Vico photograph portfolio #8, Vico wooden letters portfolio #16, "New Science" broadside #10, and Divine Liqueur #6, 2003.

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Vico photograph portfolio #8 by Dennis Letbetter, 2003. Twelve photographs in an edition of twenty. The photographs were taken at the Bancroft Library (Vico, NewScience, 3rd edition, published in 1744 by the Stamperia Muziana, Naples). Vico wooden letters portfolio #16 by Jack W. Stauffacher, 2003. Made using an assortment of sixty-six wooden letters that were given to the press in 1966 by The Williams Printing Company of 300 Broadway, San Francisco. Two broadsides, 2003: "New Science, " #10, the principles of New Science of Giambattista Vico with a photograph of the frontispiece engraving by Domenico Vaccaro; and Divine Liqueur, #6, with text about printing inks by Enrico Tallone.

24 prints (2 portfolios in 1 print box)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Vaccaro, Domenico

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Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744

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Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.)

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The Vico Collaboration name is based on the principles of the "New Science" of Giambattista Vico, "... the central principle of which is Vico's ultimate claim to immortality: the principle according to which man can understand himself because, and in the process, of understanding his past..." From the description of The Vico collaboration : Vico photograph portfolio #8, Vico wooden letters portfolio #16, "New Science" broadside #10, and Divine Liqueur #6, 2003. (Unknown). WorldCat re...

Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-

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Typographer, designer, publisher; San Francisco, Calif. b. 1920. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Werner Stauffacher, 1993 Feb. 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82780147 Jack Werner Stauffacher has been the owner and operator of Greenwood Press since 1936, first in San Mateo, California, and then in San Francisco. In the 1950's he studied with master printers in Florence, Italy, for three years, under the auspices of a Fulbright Fou...

Tallone, Enrico

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Letbetter, Dennis 1954-....

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