Peter Koch Printer: Embodied Language and the Form of the Book.

摘要

Nina Schneider's detailed account of Peter Koch's printing career is the main ingredient in this three-volume exhibition catalogue. Each entry includes a quasi-facsimile transcription of the title-page, dimensions, pagination, contents, descriptions of bindings, a transcription of the colophon, and a thumbnail illustration. There are more than 170 full entries plus shorter sub-entries describing related material, variant bindings, and journal issues. They take pride of place in the first volume, preceded by a section of full-page illustrations and followed by indexes of names, titles, and subjects. The other two volumes contain essays about Koch's work, autobiographical reminiscences, a statement of design principles, a facsimile of one of his books, and colour reproductions of title pages, two-page openings, bindings, broadsides, and ephemera. If you want to learn more about Koch, you can consult his editorial correspondence, business papers, financial records, proofs, paste-ups, and project files in archives at Stanford University and the University of Delaware, the two collections occupying more than two hundred linear feet of shelving.