The Vessel of the Spirit; | Thoughts on book typography by Christian Heinrich Kleukens
[Toronto]: [The Aliquando Press], [1981]. Octavo, 22.1 x 14.3 cm. Sewn (not to show) into olive paper wraps. The upper cover is titled in teal and decorated with a line of printer’s ornaments in maroon. Tawny endleaves or inner covers. The line of ornaments on the upper cover is repeated on the recto of the front endleaf. Unpaginated [pp. 8]. Very minor rubbing along the spine-fold; there is an almost imperceptible diagonal scuff to the lower cover and a few faint scuffs to the upper cover. Else fine. The text is an excerpt from Kleukens’ Die Kunst Gutenbergs; it is presented in both the original German and in an English translation, and was set in Jessen-Schrift and Menhart roman and printed in black and maroon respectively on Gold Beckett Text paper. Although the colophon states that the edition comprised 75 copies, (about) 135 copies were printed. Roughly 40 copies were reserved for distribution at the 1981 meeting of the Typocrafters, and 75 copies of the sheets were retained for inclusion in the 1981 Wayzgoose Anthology. (The Aliquando Century, BK 48). Item #303
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