A Constructed Roman Alphabet: A Geometric Analysis of the Greek and Roman Capitols and of the Arabic Numerals
The first U.S. 1982 edition of Goines' exquisite and finely printed geometric analysis of Greek, Roman and Arabic letterforms and numerals. Letterpress printed and bound by The Stinehour Press of Lunenburg, Vermont on Mohawk Letterpress acid-free paper. The book is renowned and sought after among graphic designers, and won the American Book Award for typography in 1983. A stunning typographic masterwork.
David Lance Goines was born in 1945 in Grants Pass, Oregon to a civil engineer father and an artist and calligrapher mother. He attended UC Berkeley, and in 1968 he founded Saint Hieronymus Press in the same Berkeley printshop where he had learned his trade. There he remained for the rest of his working career. Goines helped define the aesthetic of Berkeley’s counterculture, beginning with his images for Chez Panisse, the French restaurant opened by Alice Waters, a former girlfriend. He considered himself a craftsman and rejected the title of artist. Goines died in 2023. Item #1738.
Condition: Near Fine, light spotting to dust jacket along top edge.
Price: $325.00