Leonard F. Bahr. Harper Woods, Michigan
"Adagio is a private press, one purpose of which is the practice of typography as an end in itself. It was started in 1956 because of a fascination with fine types and unusual papers, and it continues because of a desire to use them in the production of small books and pamphlets.”
--from Announcement: The Adagio Press.
Northern Illinois University's Private Press Collection contains over twenty printed examples from the Adagio Press.
Left to right
Typographic Doodling.
Goethe: Man Errs... by Goethe.
The Contemptible Horse : the Text of John Ruskin's Letter to "My dear Tinie”.
The Artist of Kouroo by Henry David Thoreau.
Reference
Announcement: The Adagio Press, Number 4 in set 37 of the Collected Ephemera of the Adagio Press, January 1970. (Delphin I and Athenaeum types on Strathmore Chroma paper)
Links
Yellow Barn Press Collection
(University of Iowa; contains correspondence from the Adagio Press)