Hard high-country poems / Michelangelo Buonarroti Simoni ; English translation by Robert Bringhurst ; drypoint engraving by Joseph Goldyne.

Author
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Italian
Published/​Created
[Berkeley, California] : Peter Koch, Printer, MMXV [2015]
Description
28 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 25 cm

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    Multi-title collection including The typographic legacy of Ludovico degli Arrighi and 1 other(s).
    Notes
    • Issued with: The typographic legacy of Ludovico degli Arrighi / Robert Bringhurst. [Berkeley, California] : Peter Koch, Printer, MMXV [2015]; issued together in slipcase.
    • "Designed and printed by Peter Rutledte Koch with the assistance of Jonathan Gerken. ... The Italian poems were composed by Michael Bixler in Monotype Arrighi with hand refilnements by Mark Livingston. The translation was handset by Mr. Livingston from original foundry Vicenza & Arrighi types cut in 1925-26 by Charles Plumet for Frederic Warde. The preface and colophon pages were composed in digital Centaur & Arrighi. The poems are printed on vintage Amalfi handmade paper that has been in the possession of the press for twenty-five years. The portrait of Michelangelo by Joseph Goldyne, inspired by a drawing by Daniele da Volterra, was printed on British handmade paper by Robert Townsend, Master Printer, R.E. Townsend Studio. Bookbinding by John DeMerritt. The edition is limited to 126 copies, 112 of which are numbered, ten artist's proofs designated AP 1-10 and four printers proofs designated PP 1-4.."--Colophon.
    • GAX copy: No. 22 of 112 numbered copies, signed by translator, etcher and printer.
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    Multi-title collection including The typographic legacy of Ludovico degli Arrighi and 1 other(s).
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    946321043
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