The images from this year’s calendar are again from the shelves of three of San Francisco’s most extensive and well-curated rare book, manuscript, and typography collections. Thanks to the Gleeson Library at the University of San Francisco, the Letterform Archive, and John Windle Antiquarian Books for their generosity, good will, and expertise. Special thanks to Alastair Johnston and Susan Skarsgard for permission to use their works.
The Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco
Letterform Archive
John Windle Antiquarian Books
Alastair Johnston
Susan Skarsgard, 26 of twenty-six
William Blake. Gray’s Poems. London, c. 1797–98.
Pierre Brissaud. Le Bon Ton d’après-guerre. Paris, 1920–22.
Jean de La Fontaine. Fables choises mises en verse. Paris, 1755.
Henry Fuselli. Hamlet. London, 1804.
François Gérard. Œuvre de Jean Racine. Paris, 1802–03.
Alastair Johnston. “Death to the Fascist Insect…” Berkeley, California, 2016.
Georg Muche. Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923. Munich, 1923.
Oskar Schlemmer. Die Bühne im Bauhaus (Bauhausbücher 4). Munich, 1924.
François-Louis Schmied. Les Cantique des Cantiques. Paris, 1925.
Weiss-Schmuck… von E.R. Weiss. Frankfurt A.M. & Barcelona, c. 1928.
Susan Skarsgard. Twenty-six of 26. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2009.
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. Bookplate for P.J. Hiemstra. Groninger 1923–1936.
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