Wolpe - The Little ABC Book of Rudolf Koch.

The Little ABC Book of Rudolf Koch. A Facsimile of Das ABC Buchlein. With a Memoir by Fritz Kredel and a Preface by Warren Chappel. Oblong 8vo, 82p, 26 plates, David odine, Boston, The Merrion Press, London, The Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, The Typophiles, New York, 1976.

One of 2,500 copies printed at the Meriden Gravure Company on Mohawk Superfine paper. Brown cloth, stamped and titled in gilt on the spine and upper board. Acetate dust-jacket. A fine copy.

In the four-pagee leaflet that accompanies this little book, Berthold Wolpe writes: "after so many years, I am struck by their freshness and exuberance. I am sure Rudolf Koch, whom we used to call the Master, would have been happy that this particular enterprise is the one we have chosen for celebratory publication in 1976. Wolpe has initialled the leaflet and written in a large handsome italic upon the title-page: 'Jan. 21, 1977, Rowley Streatfeald Atterbury, friend for 32 years, Berthold Wolpe.'