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(High Tide Press) Type Faces. Design and prints by John Ross. Quotes from various sources. High Tide Press. East Hampton, New York; Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione. [Italy.] 2007. 12.25” x 11” x 2.25”. Accordion Fold. Color prints created using only typefaces. The majority of the paper used was Fabriano Rosapina in several weights. Some of the quotations are on Speckletone tinted paper. Bound by James DiMarcantonio at the Hope Bindery in cloth, with the accordion fold book glued to the base of the box. The front of the box is almost covered with a painted wooden ‘mock-up’ of a printer’s tray which creates the title in reverse and painted in various colors, with the design forming a face. Red ribbon allows for ease of opening the box. Cloth covered board slipcase covered in the same material and inlay on both sides of a page of drawings for the prints as well as the title page. One in an edition of 20 copies, numbered and signed by John Ross. New.

Ross writes: “These symbolic faces, all made from existing type, are quoting statements on a adjoining, ranging from the comic to the critical. The prints and the text together form the essence of the book, which is a reflection on the variety of ways people live together.

“I am endebted to the staff of the Tipoteca Italiana for their encouragement, advice and technical help. The coordinator of this group, Sandro Berra was helpful in many ways, as translator, curator and map maker. … Of course, the entire Foundation would not exist without it’s charismatic and motivated president, Silvio Antiga, whose energy and enthusiasm was always present.”

Ross also states in the Colophon: “This collection of faces, made from type, was produced at the High Tide Press print shop in East Hampton, N.Y. and at the Tipoteca Italiana foundation in Cornuda, a town in the Veneto province of Italy. The enormous quantity of type and presses at the Tipoteca made this an ideal place to assemble this project.”

Note: Already in the collections of R.I.T., Rochester New York, & The Library of Congress.

Related items: Artists' Books, Fine Printing & Private Press, Typography, High Tide Press, John Ross