Hesterberg press (7 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Sewn tan printed stiff card, slender 8vo., (4) pages, illustrated with two Bewick engravings printed from the original block. Handset and printed on dampened Rives paper by William Hesterberg for the Typocrafters. Inscribed by the printer. Repeat of an engraving with letterpress laid in. Small moisture droplet spot on front cover, else a fine copy. Signed by the Printer.…

cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 133, (6) pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. The first major work by William Hesterberg and his Hesterberg Press. The book is a photographic documentary of the author's hometown of Norborne, Missouri, a small railroad town of 931 people in the northwestern part of the state. The photographs represent a personal view of the friends, neighbors, relatives and personalities in the community who touched his early life and who are unforgettable to him. This familiarity and friendship is clearly evident in each portrait and offers the viewer a rare and unusual view of a changing rural America. Hesterberg Press (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Quarter lavender cloth gilt with Iris Nevins marbled paper-covered boards, 8vo., 23, (1) pages, illustrated including 5 mounted plates and a folding specimen. No. 11 of 75 numbered copies printed from Baskerville type in all its available forms by William Hesterberg, with Monotype and border ornaments by Michael & Winifred Bixler, on soft-White Zerkall Book Smooth paper. Bound at Campbell-Logan Bindery with Iris Nevins marbled paper. A fine copy in archival mylar.…

8vo. dark purple Japanese cloth with gold stamped paper label on cover. unpaginated. First edition, limited to 72 numbered copies. A fine copy. This latest and unplanned work from the Hesterberg Press, titled A Fable for All Ages, is a wonderful accident. Earlier this year (2015), while sorting through a box of Troya paper used by R. Hunter Middleton to print his Bewick blocks, I discovered over seventy printed sheets of The Old Woman and The Empty Cask. Knowing that Middleton had printed some fable blocks for Graham Williams and his Florin Press in England in 1980, I contacted Graham and learned that he had indeed run short of this particular fable and had requested more copies. This fortunate discovery, illustrating a very charming age fable by Galus Julius Phaedrus, is presented here and includes two other Bewick vignettes printed damp, in addition to the Middleton print which is laid in. This letterpress work explores the long and fascinating history of the fable, Aesop, Phaedrus, British Fabulists of note and Bewick's special interest in the fable genre. The following descriptive excerpt, used by Bewick, is taken from the Application of The Old Woman and the Empty Cask Written in 1778 by Samuel Croxall in his "Fables of Aesop and Others": "Phaedrus was an old man when he wrote his Fables, and this he applies to himself; intimating, what we ought to judge of his youth, when his old age was capable of such productions.". dark purple Japanese cloth with gold stamped paper label on cover. Hesterberg Press (ilustrador).…

8vo. quarter cloth, paste paper covered boards. 40 pages. Limited to 70 numbered copies. A fine copy. The life of Chicagoan Robert Hunter Middleton, distinguished Ludlow type designer and private press printer, is summarized in this long overdue work that speaks of the twenty year friendship between William Hesterberg and Robert and Katherine Middleton. quarter cloth, paste paper covered boards. Hesterberg Press (ilustrador).…

tall 8vo. quarter cloth and marbled paper covered boards. 23 pages. One of 75 copies. This wonderfully produced book by The Hesterberg Press chronicles the history of Baskerville type, starting with the influence from Caslon type in 1757 to how it has evolved in the present day. Includes tipped in samples, along with a facsimile of an early Baskerville type specimen produced by The Hesterberg Press. quarter cloth and marbled paper covered boards. Hesterberg Press (ilustrador).…

cloth. large 8vo. cloth. (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii). The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and a desire to document them for their safe keeping. It is hoped this five-year investigation will begin to provide answers, as over 700 of the 1,350 blocks that came to Chicago are documented here in 35 collections. The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered measures 6.5 x 10 inches and contains eighty pages which include fourteen original blocks printed on dampened Rives Heavy-weight paper using a Washington Hand Press. The remaining thirty-five Bewick illustrations were printed using a Vandercook Press from metal engravings reproduced from the Memorial Edition. The text, set in a digital version of Bulmer, was also printed from metal engravings. Color photographs of Bewick's portrait and his toolbox are included as tip-ins, along with a photograph of a group of blocks at the Hesterberg Press. A numbered edition of ninety copies was bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis, in a dark green cloth with contrasting green end papers. The spine is gold stamped and the front cover features an inset of a vignette printed from one of Bewick's blocks at the press. Hesterberg Press (ilustrador).…