Epitaph

Designer Robert Fawcett American

Printer Heron Press American

1929

Not on view

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Title: Epitaph
Designer: Robert Fawcett (American, born England, London 1903–1967 Ridgefield, Connecticut)
Printer: Heron Press (American, New York)
Date: 1929
Medium: Book of printed black ink on paper, bound in leather with silver and gold tooling
Dimensions: 11 3/4 × 9 1/16 × 1/2 in. (29.8 × 23 × 1.3 cm)
Classification: Books and book bindings
Credit Line: John C. Waddell Collection, Gift of John C. Waddell, 1998
Object Number: 1998.537.9
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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