This Wisp of a Thing Called Civilization. The 2022 CODEX Lecture, Berkeley, 11 April 2022.

(Maret.) BRINGHURST (Robert)

Publication details: New York: Russell Maret,2023,

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A wide-ranging, timely essay, immaculately printed by Maret and his apprentice, tracing the relationships between language and language forms, encompassing Chinese calligraphy, Romanesque manuscript and Renaissance typography, and underlining their vulnerability in the face of war, migration and despotic control. 'How much work it is to make a single page worth saving - and how easily an army or an air force or a mob made up of frightened or deluded human beings can destroy entire libraries, cities and countries.' (Bringhurst)With prospectus.

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100/110 COPIES signed by the author, book and Gremolata, Cancellaresca Milanese, Sans Pisolino and Iohann Titling types designed by Maret, the text printed by Maret and Sarah Moody on Velké Losiny handmade paper, numerous photographic plates and tipped-in photographic illustrations printed on Mohawk paper by Puritan Capital, pp. 50, [iv], small folio, original russet shot silk-backed boards covered with patterned paper with interlocking tile design, front board with mounted printed label, fine

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