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This essay deals with the advantages of letterpress printing and the basis for design of the books published by the press that are also held by the Sackner Archive. Jarvis discusses Alasdair Gray's book 1982/Janine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a typographic tour de force in which the accordion folds are placed such that the text can be unfolded as a horizontal continuum. The type is printed in red, black, blue, and orange highly saturated colors. The poem is based upon a performance piece by Duke that completed in 1973. The poem describes Dada in Zurich in 1916, in the winter in Berlin in 1918-1919 during the hardships of WWI, as Dada slept from 1923-1945, and in Australia in contemporaneous times. The Sackner copy is one of 25 in a portfolio; No.1 was in a designer binding, No.26-29 were unbound, and 5 copies were hors commerce. Except for the title which is in the German language, the text is in English. The book was conceived and designed in a constructivist lay-out by Mike Hudson (who never met Duke according to a personal communication to the Sackners) and set in a wide range of lead and wood sans serif types by Jadwiga Jarvis. The portfolio has papercard inserts for two pamphlets on the inside front...

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This book first appeared as an essay in the Australian Book Collector (1999). It was revised and enlarged in this book and deals with bookmaking and typography by Crombie and Bournes for the Kickshaws Press. It was printed by Wayzgoose Press. It is stored in a John Crombie Publications box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This essay provides brief history of typography and the printing trade. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the fourth in a series of four monographs concerned with the evolution of reading traditions and book practices over the past 2000 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.