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Victor Hammer, artist and printer: PB 84-2003

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Victor Hammer, artist and printer

Maker(s)

Publisher: Anvil Press
Designer: Mardersteig, Martino

Categories

Description

Contents: Who is Victor Hammer? / Rudolf Koch ; translated from the German by Ulrich Middeldorf -- Mezzotints / Ulrich Middeldorf -- Engravings & woodcuts -- Inscriptions & symbols -- Uncial type-faces. Foreword / R. Hunter Middleton. A master of punch-cutting / Hermann Zapf. Documentation of Hammer types / W. Gay Reading, Jr. -- Four presses : a bibliography / Paul Holbrook ; with notes by Carolyn R. Hammer (p. [137]-195) -- A Hammer bibliography / David Farrell (p. [197]-213)

213 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 29 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1981

Note

"This first edition is limited to five hundred and fifty copies (1-500; I-L numbered at the press) Designed by Martino Mardersteig in Dante type and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega"--Colophon. This is copy no. 319.

Bound in cloth

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 84-2003
Primary reference Number: 94690
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 30 September 2019 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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