Jack W. Stauffacher – Typographic Environments

2023. 2d ed. 20 pages. 225 x 235 mm.

Original text from a 1968 lecture by Stauffacher on the nature of the typographic book). Hunt Roman 18 and 24 point with Walbaum italic on Zerkall mould-made natural white rough finish, in black plus red-orange; printed on a Korrex Hannover test-press. A new drawing of Stauffacher by Sara Ogilvie, printed from a line block on Zerkall Ingres; black-and-white photograph of JWS with Hermann Zapf and Sumner Stone taken in 2001 by Dennis Letbetter on Platinum Etching. 115 copies bound in-house at Corvus Works in Burnt Sienna Windsor Cloth spines with paper sides on boards; printed with half-tone portrait of JWS from a photograph taken by Ruth Teiser on 18 December, 1968; title in Sistina capitals with Walbaum italic credit in dark brown and red-orange inks.

(First edition printed as a keepsake in 2012/13 — 60 copies, half for Stauffacher, half for Corvus Works.

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