Two alphabets by Russell Maret: A Showing of Job (1997) and Mute, a Promethean alphabet (2001)
Russell Maret's designs for two alphabets named 'Job' and 'Mute'.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1997-2001
Extent
0.30 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. 23428/1].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MS. 23428/1-2
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 23428
Abstract
Two alphabets by Russell Maret: A Showing of Job (1997) and Mute, a Promethean alphabet (2001).
Biographical / Historical
Russell Maret is an American book artist and letter designer. He was introduced to letterpress printing in 1989 when he moved to San Francisco to study poetry at the New College of California. He then studied with Peter Koch in Berkeley, worked at the Press in Tuscany Alley and then at the Firefly Press in Somerville, Massachusetts. In 1993, he set up his own press, Kuboaa, at the Center for Book Arts in New York. He set up his own studio in 1999 and created his first typeface in 2008. Maret was Printer in Residence at the Bodleian Libraries Bibliographical Press in 2017. He has published more than 60 books.
Custodial History
Originally part of the Allen K. Mears collection of books, manuscripts, broadsides and ephemera.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian Library with the support of the Kenneth Rose Fund from Russell Maret on behalf of the original collector Allen K. Mears, 2023.
Geographic
Style / Period
Topical
- Title
- Catalogue of two alphabets by Russell Maret:A Showing of Job (1997) and Mute, a Promethean alphabet (2001)
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Rachael Marsay
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Catalogued with the generous support of the Roy Davids bequest
- Edition statement
- First edition
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
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