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We are proud to annouce that Pangur Ban is the winner of the 2011 Award for Excellence for a letterpress hardback book from the Tampa Book Arts Studio

PANGUR BAN
Number four in our series of type specimen/cat poems features a monk's cat & a beautiful uncial typeface

Pangur Ban describes the relationship between a 9th-century monk and his cat. It features linocuts by Philippa Threlfall and is set in the unusual uncial typeface Samson designed by Victor Hammer. The title page also displays Rudolf Koch's Neuland Inline -- we like the fact that his son Paul cut the matrices for Samson in 1930.

Once again we have called upon our colleague Bill Severson to produce a custom-designed paste paper, handmade at the Press especially for this book.

The book is a single section of eight leaves bound in boards of Severson paste paper with a cloth spine. A title label is pasted to the spine. For more images follow this link

Now Printing -- Reserve your copy now

E R Weiss: the typography of a book artist, by Gerald Cinamon, is now in the press,
and we hope that it will be completed before the year is out. Ask for a prospectus if not on our postal mailing list.

Lovers of beautiful books, elegant design, and clear typography will be delighted with this new volume about the book artist, Emil Rudolf Weiss. 

Weiss stands high in the pantheon of great book artists that includes William Morris, Bruce Rogers and Francis Meynell, among others, but because his work was mostly distributed in Germany, he tends to be less well known in the English speaking world; certainly not much has been written about him or his work in English since the 1930s. Yet he was sufficiently regarded by Stanley Morison to be a guest designer for an issue of The Fleuron, another issue of which included an essay by Morison about Weiss ornaments. His Weiss-Antiqua typeface was particularly popular in the USA, mainly due to the availability for slug casting through Intertype matrices and the publicity work of the Bauer Type Foundry office in New York. Today, most of us have, perhaps unknowingly, seen the digital version of Weiss roman, if not the original metal version. It remains a popular typeface, particularly in book work where one of its recent outings was on the dust-jacket of the US edition of The Da Vinci Code and the UK edition of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen.

Author Jerry Cinamon studied graphic design at the Yale School of Art & Architecture, and first came across Weiss Initials while working in New York in the early 1960s.  After a long and successful career at Penguin books, Jerry learned German after his retirement in order to research his excellent biography of Rudolf Koch (Oak Knoll, 2000). 

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