Oratio de Hominis Dignitate (Oration on the Dignity of Man)
Victor Hammer, Lexington, Kentucky, 1953
Description
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1954)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designer
- Victor Hammer
- Author
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Translator
- Elizabeth Livermore Forbes
- Trim size
- 8.5 x 11.5 inches
- Pages
- 54
- Quantity printed
- 200 copies
- Price
- $8.50
- Typefaces
- ATF Garamond 14/1 (English text), Monotype Emerson 14/20 (Latin text), ATF Garamond 72 pt., adapted (display), Entire book handset, not justified on right, Type page 34 x 47 picas. English text borders Latin insert at top, bottom, and outer edge, odd-numbered folios on left-hand pages
- Compositor
- Jacob Hammer
- Printer
- Jacob Hammer
- Printing method
- letterpress on hand press
- Paper
- Hammer and Anvil
- Paper manufacturer
- Moulin Richard de Bas, France
- Paper supplies
- The Stevens-Nelson Paper Corp.
- Binder
- Elizabeth Kerr
- Binding
- Light sand-color Duna paper, rough texture, Bound by hand, Paper label on spine printed in red
- Publisher
- The Anvil Press
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