Thomas Paine in His Own Words. Calligraphy by Thomas Ingmire.
Berkeley: Foolscap Press, 2024. Folio 15 x 9 1/2. 68 pages, including 5 multi-color and 1 single color calligraphed quotation, printed in black, red, and blue. Errata slip laid in. Cloth boards are sewn onto carbon fiber rods which allow the book to lay open flat. Fine copy, with prospectus. This book is not merely handsome; it is recommended reading. Item #19030
One of 90 numbered copies designed, printed, and bound at Foolscap Press by Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence G. Van Gelder. Signed by Thomas Ingmire. Set in Caslon type, the typeface used in the first printing of the Declaration of Independence as well as a favorite house face in Benjamin Franklin's print shop. The printers' illuminating text is set in Roman letters. Paine's own words are in italics.
"These are the times that try men's souls," wrote Paine. In his many writings, Gotthold & VanGelder remind us, "one can hear the arguments laid out for an egalitarian and just society that influenced the birth of the United States, English law, and the French Revolution."
Price: $950.00