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The Pentagram Press commonplace book : a selection of typographic interpretations
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- Minneapolis : Pentagram Press, 1988
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- 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations, photograph ; 25 cm
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- ocm18824573
- Colophon: A colophonic afterword. This is the first book printed in Pentagram's newly resurrected shop in the Inkunabula Arts Building ... This book required 112 press runs (time is the invisible factor!) on ArchesWove, which ammounts to nearly 28,000 impressions. All of the type was handset, except where noted, & printed by Michael Tarachow in very long days & even longer nights, midwinter 1987-1988, in an edition of 176: handmade Fabriano Roma & cloth for the books numbered 1-150, Roma with a leather spine in an edition lettered A-Z and signed by many contributors. Both were handbound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery ... Presswork was completed 28 February 88 ... The entire edition is signed by the printer. Of the leather books, six are reserved for presentation to friends of the press.
- Edition limited to 176 copies, lettered A-Z and numbered 1-150; all signed by the printer.