ATypI Auction news #2
Do you have empty shelf space? Are you a humble bibliophile? Are you a type designer that has only worked digitally? Do you collect rare printed or lettered work? Are you a typophile? With every century represented this year, it is quite possible that every typophile's desires will be met.
Posted on 19 September 2003 by Jean-Francois Porchez, & Tiffany Wardle, ATypI Vancouver
A drawer or two that are begging to be used? Do you have an empty hole on a wall that you would like to fill? Do you collect all things Monotype? Well, we have pamphlets and posters, books and booklets, matrices and brass, periodicals and journals, bins and boxes, and bags and t-shirts. All for the taking should your bid be the highest.
Are you a humble bibliophile? How about Printing Metals, Fry's Metal Foundries, London, 1936. Or A Book of Scripts by Alfred Fairbanks, Penguin Books, First Edition, 1949. That's right, this one was designed by Jan Tschichold. And Orthotypographie by Jean Méron, preface by Fernand Baudin, composed in Photina. La Fonderie Typographique by Honoré Balzac, reprint presented by René Ponot (1917-2003) and preface by John Dreyfus (1918-2002). And not to forget Dutch Typefounders' Specimens, Dutch typefaces from Nikolaas Kis (1687) to TEFF (PMN Noordzij) Lexicon (1997) (John Lane and Mathieu Lommen) 356 pages. English. Also donated is a Deluxe (unbound) Edition of Dear. Mr. Hunter, this book was compiled from letters between Vojtech Preissig and Dard Hunter which occurred in 1920. Plus!! A whole plethora of other rare type specimens and books on typography.
(top)Christian Paput shows his belowed Échoppe that he used for 30 years to cut several Garamonts. What a symbol this small nice tool in a box! And (below) he shows how it's used.
Are you a type designer that has only worked digitally? Or are simply a traditionalist needing more tools? We have Punchcutting by Christian Paput. A Small book in french and english which explains the punchcutter's job. But for this rare gem to be used properly you will need the Échoppe, which is a very rare tool in a box from the last official punchcutter of the world, Christian Paput, Imprimerie Nationale. This tool is composed of two parts, metal part (10 years old) who probably be used to repair some Garamont, Romain du Roi. The wood part show the initials from the owner (30 years old).
Do you collect rare printed or lettered work? How about a folio double-sided two-page spread from the Ashendene Press edition of Don Quixote? Or is the Incunable period more to your liking? We have a quarto double-sided single page from Scriptores Historiæ Augustæ. Printed by Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, in Venice, 1490.
Albert Boton show us one of the large collection of various drawings from his Carrénoir typeface (originally called Quadrat)
Are you a typophile? Do you collect rare bits and bobs that only someone as refined as yourself could possibly understand? We have two Monotype Composition Matrix Cases with Matrices:10 point Times New Roman with Italic and Small Caps10 point Caslon 37 with mixed sorts. And two banks of Monotype Keyboard Buttons. One Left hand side. One Right hand side. These are a pair that slide onto the keyboard to activate the keybars that drive the punches to make the controller ribbon that gives air-activated signals to the Monotype Composition Caster.
With every century represented this year, it is quite possible that every typophile's desires will be met. Keep the donations coming!! It will be your donations that make the auction great.
Marc Kopylov is the French publisher of the Éditions des Cendres (he was at ATypI Lyon, 1998). He can be proud of the new huge reprint of the Didot specimen he just published this year that we will be able to see and bid for during the Auction.
Tiffany Wardle and Jean François Porchez
Auction Organizers for ATypI Vancouver 2003
Note about the images: All have been shot on the 18 September 2003 by Jean François during his Auction Paris tour. More are available and offered to the purchasers of the corresponding items (if they ask!).
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