Adrian Wilson THE WORK & PLAY OF ADRIAN WILSON A BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH COMMENTARY 1983 Limited Edition Folio Tuscany Red Ink Dutch Linen Illustrated Tipped-In Specimens W Thomas Taylor Book Designer
Title: The Work & Play of Adrian Wilson: A Bibliography with Commentary
Author: Adrian Wilson - Adrian Wilson was an influential book designer, and author of the classic 1967 work entitled “The Design of Books”. During World War II Wilson was interned at Camp Angel, Waldport, where he printed William Everson's anti-war poems for Untide Press. After the war he and his new wife, Joyce Lancaster Wilson, settled in San Francisco and helped to form the Interplayers Theater. In 1947 he studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, but soon left, first to join Jack Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press, and afterwards to join the University of California Press. After a few years he left the Press, but he accepted commissions from them for many years. In 1957 appeared his “Printing for Theatre”. In 1983 he was an early recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award.
Publisher: W. Thomas Taylor
City: Austin
Year: 1983
Printing Information: Limited Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 158 pages
Width: 10.75" Height: 16.25"
Book Details: This folio is quarter bound in oasis morocco dyed to match the Tuscany Red ink used in the text. The Dutch linen sides are stamped with Wilson's type-juggler device. This volume is printed by hand on handmade paper by Adrian Wilson and contains many tipped-in specimens of his work, some of which are actual pages, often in color, from his books.

Adrian Wilson was internationally known as a designer and printer of fine books. This beautifully produced bibliography contains a biographical introduction and illustrates 196 items produced by Wilson, each accompanied by lengthy comments by Wilson himself concerning the printing of each book and other pertinent facts. This is a scarce limited edition of this bibliography, numbered 321 of 325.


Condition / Notes: This handsomely bound volume is in excellent condition with minor scratches and a circular soil mark to the spine. The binding and text block are sound, and the text and illustrations are clear and bright.

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