Category: NYC letters

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  NYC letters #26

  A rare book (one of two in existence) at the Grolier Club. I think it was printed by Jensen. It used to be a smidge bigger, that’s not the original binding. (Also, those are not my fingers) Printed on vellum.

  July 16, 2011
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  NYC letters #25

   From a rare book held by The Grolier Club of NYC

  July 15, 2011
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  NYC letters #24

   On the corner of 1st Avenue and St Marks Place. I think.

  July 14, 2011
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  NYC letters #23

   From a book of calligraphy by Hermann Zapf

  July 13, 2011
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  NYC letters #22

   From a book “Gems of Penmanship” by Williams Packard, 1866

  July 12, 2011
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  NYC letters #21

   From the Butler Library

  July 11, 2011
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  NYC letters #20

   From a van parked outside of Cooper Union

  July 9, 2011
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  NYC letters #19

  “Foreign” scripts printed by William Caslon, 1734AD. Butler Library.

  July 8, 2011
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  NYC letters #18

   The original Nathan’s hotdogs! Coney Island.

  July 7, 2011
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  NYC letters #17

  From the Butler Library. This book, the Epistole Devotissime de Siena, (1500AD) has the first ever printed italic text. This is the fronticepiece, or first (and highly decorated) page.

  July 6, 2011