Books Designed by Preissig
  • Broucci.(Fireflies.) Pro male i velke deti. ( For Children. Big and Small) JAN KARAFIAT, 1903
  • Ceska grafika (Czech prints) 1905
  • Barenvy lept (Color Etchings) 1906
  • Byl jeden domecek. (There was a small House.) Obrazkova kniha pro malé deti.(Picture Book for small Children). Prague, "Dedictvá Komenského", 1905
  • Svatopluk Cech. Pisne Otroka 1907
  • Barevní lept a barevná rytina.( color etchings and color engravings) Technické poznámky. Dál I. Druhé prehlédnuté vydání. Prag, Státní tiskárna,1909
  • Zur Technik Der Farbigen Radierung & Des Farben-Kupferstichs (German version of Barevní lept a barevná rytina.) Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann 1909
  • Silesian Songs, Petr Bezruc, Society of Czech Bibliophiles, Prague 1909 - features design and typographic ornaments by Preissig
  • Together Laylander, O. J.: [No place]: Privately printed, 1915 Designed by Vojtech Preissig. Title-page and 5 pages of text, each with an illustration by Preissig on the facing page. The Type used in this small book is Preissig's Grotesque Anitiqua Type of 1915.
  • Gold's Gloom Tales from the Panchatantra, Translated by Arthur Ryder. University of Chicago Press 1925- features design and typographic ornaments by Preissig (not credited in book)
  • Sycopating Saxaphones by Alfred V. Frankenstein. Robert O. Ballou Chicago 1925- features a rather unusual design composition explained in the colophon as "This book was designed (after the composition had been completed) by Vojtech Preissig in an attempt to show the possibility of typographic salvation through design under ordinary printing trade conditions."
  • Balzac by Rene Benjamn, Knopf, New York 1927- There are no illustrations by Preissig in this book, just a simple but effective use of typographic border rules with ornament. The dust jacket however is a classic Preissig design.

    Books Designed by Preissig which feature Preissig Roman

  • M. Thomas G. Masaryk, President de la Republique Tchecoslovaque a l'inauguration de l'Institut d'etudes Slaves a Paris : le dix-sept Octobre de l'an MCMXXIII. Universitâe de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne. 1923 - Printed by the State Printing Office in Prague. 300 copies printed in French and Czech
  • Barevní lept a barevná rytina.( color etchings and color engravings) Technické poznámky. Dál I. Druhé prehlédnuté vydání. Prag, Státní tiskárna,1925 reprint of1909 edition uses Preissig's Antikva type
  • Salut au Monde.from leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman. Random House, New York,1930. 390 copies, signed and numbered. The first of Random House's "New Fine Books" series. Printed at the State Printing Office in Czechoslovakia.
  • The Way to Wealth. The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 written under the name of Richard Saunders. Bejamin Franklin, Random House, New York, 1930. 390 copies, signed and numbered. The second of Random House's "New Fine Books" series. Printing was done at the State Printing Office in Czechoslovakia.
  • Aucassin and Nicolette Translation by Andrew Lang Limited Editions Club, 1931. 1500 copies, signed and numbered on end sheet featuring a cascading design created from wedge shapes which decorate the entire volume. Features many linoleum cuts by Preissig. The decoration and overall composition of this volume are quite impressive. The design integrates the dust jacket, slip case, endpapers, and even the binding tapes! Printed in three colors by the State Printing Office in Czechoslovakia.
    J.W. Zanders Watermarked paper.- Watermarks in this book include: ---Aucassin and Nicolette 1930 ---VP Monogram with Paper making logo ---JWZ initials.

This is a partial bibliography. Additional books designed by others using Preissig Roman as well as various refernces to Preissig are also cataloges offline.

by Richard Kegler


Center Spread
Together
- 1915


Book Cover
Gold's Gloom
- 1925


Syncopating Saxaphones
dust jacket design-1925


Balzac
dust jacket design-1927


Book cover - 'Aucassin and Nicolette' 1931

 
 

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