Octavo 86.1 [8vo]

Editor: Simon Johnston, Mark Holt, Michael Burke, Hamish Muir
Publisher: Eight Five Zero publishing
Publication: 1986, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitch
Pages: 16
Size: 210 x 297
Text: English
Design: 8vo, London

The eight issues of Octavo, journal of typography, have acquired cult status. Published between 1986 and 1992, Octavo was an independent self-financed journal limited to a production run of just 3000 units for each of the 8 issues (with the first 7 being print based and the last as a CD Rom).

Contents:

• Quotations (Thoughts from ten practitioners)
• Technics and ethics; the work of Anthony Froshaug (Robin Kinross)
• Information Texture (April Greiman)
• Richard Long's Art of Words (David Reason)
• Twentieth Century Monograms (Artists and Designers')

Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing and tanning to cover/edges. Please note that some product listings use stock imagery, so the item received may not be the item shown.

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