Five Prose Pieces
Harry Duncan, Wightman Williams, Arno Werner (cover design), Cummington, Massachusetts, 1947
Description
Juror Notes
Extremely stylized typography and illustrations convey Rilke’s poignantly personal sensitivity.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1948)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Harry Duncan, Wightman Williams, Arno Werner (cover design)
- Illustrator
- Wightman Williams
- Author
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Translator
- Carl Niemeyer
- Trim size
- 8.5 x 11.35 inches
- Pages
- 24
- Quantity printed
- 271 copies
- Price
- $8.15
- Typefaces
- Monotype Blado lower case, 16 pt., no leading, Poliphilus caps., 12 pt., no leading, set by hand, Type Measure: 34.75 x 47.5 picas
- Compositor
- Harry Duncan
- Printer
- Harry Duncan
- Printing methods
- letterpress by hand on dampened sheets, plank woodcuts (illustrations)
- Paper
- Van Gelder Oxhead (natural)
- Paper supplies
- Stevens-Nelson Paper Corp.
- Binder
- Arno Werner
- Binding materials
- Calf back with hand-marbled paper sides, sewn, tooled and cased by hand
- Publisher
- The Cummington Press
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