Item #114 A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach. Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH, trans A P. Dierick.
A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach.

A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1985. Octavo, 22.5 x 13.5 cm. Cased in quarter indigo cloth, with blue and gilt accented marbled paper covered boards, and printed paper title label to the upper cover, and ochre endpapers. Unpaginated [24 pp.]. A fine copy. Set in Bembo, with Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift, printed in blue, for display. Unknown ornaments, printed in green, used for page head and foot borders, along with rules printed in red. Printed on Mohawk Letterpress paper. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Bach by Pam G. Rueter, printed from the block. One of 100 copies, of which this is one of an unknown number hors commerce (marked ‘h/c’ on the colophon page). Item #114

Printed to celebrate the tricentenary of Bach’s birth.

Price: $150.00