Selected Collection
Stamperia Del Santuccio
21 records, showing 50 per page
Record Number
1290
Reference Type
Artwork
Picture
Title
Hagia Sophia Crowning the Young Christ / prayer card Short Title: Hagia Sophia Crowning the Young Christ / prayer card
Notes
Single prayer card; "Hagia Sophia Crowning the Young Christ" (after Victor Hammer's triptych painting, 1953-1956) on the front of the card and a quote by Thomas Merton on the back.
Label
DAU
Record Number
1291
Reference Type
Artwork
Picture
Year
2001
Title
Hagia Sophia Crowning the Young Christ / broadside Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
King Library Press
Notes
Broadside of Victor Hammer's line-cut, "Hagia Sophia Crowning the Young Christ" with a passage of Victor Hammer describing Merton's naming of the triptych painting from which the line-cut was taken. This item was originally printed for the 7th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society in 2001. This is a limited edition copy - #6 of 50.
Label
AULD
Type of Work
Line-cut limited edition - #6/50. Short Title: Hagia Sophia Crowning the Young Christ / broadside
Record Number
2600
Reference Type
Pamphlet
Year
1956
Title
Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
This is a prayer printed on one sheet, French-folded, to make four printable pages (8 total).
Edition
First hard cover limited edition (1 of 4) Short Title: Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Notes
Cloth with "Thomas Merton" printed on cover. Colophon indicates permission for printing granted in 1956. OCLC/Worldcat locates only two confirmed copies. According to a note by Carolyn Reading Hammer, wife of Victor Hammer, 54 copies were printed - of which Merton received 50 copies and Hammer retained four (info retrieved from Worldcat). This copy is likely 1 of the 4 kept by Hammer. It was bound by Carolyn Hammer bound in the late 1990s before the printing of Four French Poems. "I remember several unbound things from The Anvil Press and the Stamperia del Santuccio being cased one way or another in the late 1990s. Several different papers were used, but every book had the same material on the spines, as on your copy." (Paul Holbrook) This item is not listed in Dell'Isola, but is item 2.836 in Breit and Daggy and is listed in the title finder of Burton's bibliography. The only other place where it has been published is in Convivium 2 in Italian as "Preghiera al sacro cuore". An exceptionally uncommon Merton item.
Label
NUDL
Record Number
737
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1958
Title
Cassiodorus / of Scribes Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - 1/50 - Opus XIV / Number 4 - L
Notes
Cloth (without dust jacket as issued); limited to 50 copies (Opus XIV / Number 4 - L) by Victor Hammer printed in red, black and blue American uncial type on Magnani paper; engraved initial letter by Victor Hammer. It is supposed that Merton supervised the translation as he was at Gethsemani the same time as Augustine Wolff and also through his relationship with Victor Hammer and interest in Cassiodorus - he translated "A Prayer of Cassiodorus" in 1967 with Stanbrook Abbey Press.
Label
DL
Translator
Augustine Wolff, (supervised by Thomas Merton) Short Title: Cassiodorus / of Scribes
Record Number
2180
Reference Type
Pamphlet
Year
1949
Title
Letter Press Christmas Card
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Notes
Folded letter press Christmas card featuring the Apostles and a quote from Romans.
Label
ND
Date
Christmas 1949
Type of Work
Christmas card Short Title: Letter Press Christmas Card
Record Number
2370
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Solitary Life / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccion
Number of Pages
21 pages
Edition
First limited edition - signed, #44/60. Short Title: The Solitary Life / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket. Opus 16 - copy #44 of only 60 copies, signed by Merton. Handprinted in red and black by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type; the title-page is set in his Andromaque typeface, and was the first use of that type.
Label
NSDL
Record Number
2366
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio (Victor Hammer)
Edition
First limited private printing - #77/100. Short Title: The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued; chocolate paper over boards; limited edition - copy no. 77 of 100. Issued as Broadside II. Handprinted by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type, and printed in red and black and blue.
Label
NLUD
Record Number
2365
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
What Ought I To do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the collection in Migne's Latin Patrology Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
35 pages
Edition
First private limited edition printing (#4/50) - signed by Merton. Short Title: What Ought I To do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the collection in Migne's Latin Patrology
Notes
Cloth in dust jacket; limited edition - copy no. 4 of 50. Handprinted by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type, and printed in red and black. Signed by Thomas Merton on the free endpaper.
Label
NULSD
Record Number
2176
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - #27/50. Short Title: What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton; Opus XV; #27 of 50 numbered copies printed in red and black on Japanese Hosho paper in in Hammer's American Uncial. The elaborate dust jacket has text printed in Latin with a two- color, 9-line, initial letter 'E' cut in brass by Victor Hammer. "Victor Hammer Artist and Printer" p. 147. Prospectus laid in.
Label
NUSDL
Record Number
2507
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio (Victor Hammer)
Number of Pages
Two folded, unbound 11x17 sheets - 8 pages in all.
Edition
First limited edition printing - #5/100 Short Title: The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu
Notes
Variant. Two folded sheets (11x17); unbound but laid into a cloth, custom fitted, latched case. Issued as Broadside II. Handprinted by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type, and printed in red and black and blue. "Victor knew many binders, and it could be that he gave them an unbound copy to case/bind as they wanted. Since its such a low number, I would suspect that might be the case." (PH)
Label
NUDL
Record Number
1547
Reference Type
Book
Year
1962
Title
Hagia Sophia / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
8
Edition
First hard cover, signed, limited edition. Short Title: Hagia Sophia / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton; limited edition - Opus 17, # 41/69. On the dust jacket (magnani paper) there is printed a passage from Proverbs beginning with a two-color initial letter "S" cut from brass by Victor Hammer. The Engish translation of this Latin passage is written interlinear in red. This copy came from the collection of the art historian Ulrich Middeldorf, who was a friend of the Hammers and wrote about Victor Hammer's artwork on numerous occasions, including a contribution to Carolyn Hammer's 1981 biography of her husband.
Label
DSL
Record Number
1288
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1978
Title
Hagia Sophia Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
8
Edition
First Magnani paper cloth edition. Short Title: Hagia Sophia
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); "When, in 1961, Merton gave the manuscript of "Hagia Sophia" to the Stamperia del Santuccio to be published under its imprint, two editions were planned: the first to be a small issue of 50 copies on Magnani paper with a frontispiece engraving, "Hagia Sophia and the Young Christ", after Victor Hammer's triptych painting, 1953-1956. The text pages for this edition were printed in 1961 but as the engraving was not yet finished, the decision was made to re-set the type and print a variant edition on Whatman paper as Opus XVll, 1962, of Stamperia del Santuccio imprints. Victor Hammer never finished the engraving. Now, a decade after his death, and the death of Thomas Merton, the pages of the text that he had printed and the unfinished engraving, printed here from the brass plate as he left it, are together in rememberance in this small volume. - C. R. H., December, 1978" - this text is taken from one of the front pages of this edition. This book is the last one to bear the imprint of Stamperia del Santuccio. Carolyn Hammer printed the frontispiece and title page for this 1978 edition.
Label
UDL
Record Number
955
Reference Type
Book
Year
1960
Title
The Ox-Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Edition
First hard cover limitied edition - #81/100 Short Title: The Ox-Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu
Notes
Cloth with no dust jacket as issued; limited to 100 copies and is one of the exceptional publications where Merton and Victor Hammer's Stamperia Del Santuccio colaborated (reference David Semon collection).
Label
NUDL
Record Number
954
Reference Type
Book
Year
1959
Title
What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology Place Published: Kentucky
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Number of Pages
30
Edition
First hard cover limited edition - #34/50. Short Title: What Ought I to do? Sayings of the Desert Fathers from the Collection of Migne's Latin Patrology
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton; Opus XV; #34 of 50 numbered copies printed in red and black on Japnnese Hosho paper in in Hammer's American Uncial. The elaborate dust jacket has text printed in Latin with a two- color, 9-line, initial letter 'E' cut in brass by Victor Hammer. "Victor Hammer Artist and Printer" p. 147.
Label
ULDS
Record Number
540
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1960
Title
The Solitary Life / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Number of Pages
21
Edition
First hard cover, signed, limited edition - #16/60. Short Title: The Solitary Life / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; signed by Merton; limited edition - opus 16, copy #16/60. Handprinted in red and black by Victor Hammer using his American Uncial type; the title-page is set in his Andromaque typeface, and was the first use of that type.
Label
DSL
Record Number
539
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1962
Title
Hagia Sophia / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
8
Edition
First hard cover, signed, limited edition. Short Title: Hagia Sophia / signed
Notes
Cloth; signed by Merton; limited edition - Opus 17, # 28/69. This item has a variant cloth binding while is internally unchanged. Laid in is a proof of an engraving from the Victor Hammer collection titled, "Hagia Sophia and the Young Christ" (unfinished state). This engraving looks to be a proof for the 1978 edition of this item that includes this frontispiece engraving. This item was received with deepest gratitude from the personal collection of William H. Shannon.
Label
DSLA
Record Number
1186
Reference Type
Edited Book
Picture
Editor
Carolyn R. Hammer, (including essay by Merton )
Year
1988
Title
Victor Hammer / An Artist's Testament Place Published: Verona
Publisher
Stamperia Valdonega (for The Anvil Press)
Number of Pages
305
Edition
First hard cover limited edition (in slip case) / 1 of 200. Short Title: Victor Hammer / An Artist's Testament
Notes
Cloth in slip case; designed and printed in Dante types by Martino Mardersteig of Stamperia Valdonega, Verona for The Anvil Press. This item is a compilation of Victor Hammer's writings interspersed with a number of essays including one by Thomas Merton titiled, "A World of Spiritual Imagery" (1965) on pages 193-195. Laid in is what appears to a prospectus sheet for this item by The Anvil Press.
Label
LUD
Record Number
2469
Reference Type
Edited Book
Editor
Paul Evans Holbrook, and F. Douglas Scutchfield
Year
2014
Title
The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Number of Pages
333 pages.
Edition
Leather bound signed limited edition - 24/69 Short Title: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer / signed
Notes
Leather bound limited edition. Inscribed and signed by Paul Holbrook and accompanied by hand-written note.
Label
NYUDL
Record Number
513
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1958
Title
The Unquiet Conscience Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia Del Santuccio
Number of Pages
4
Edition
First soft cover limited edition booklet.
Notes
Soft cover; laid in is a 1966 Christmas greeting from the Hammers with poem by Merton; limited edition - 1 of 50.
Label
TDL
Translator
Merton, Thomas Short Title: The Unquiet Conscience
Record Number
2407
Reference Type
Pamphlet
Year
1956
Title
Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus / signed Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
French-folded. 8 pages with 4 printable.
Edition
First soft cover limited edition (1 of 54) - inscribed and signed by Merton. Short Title: Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus / signed
Notes
Soft cover; this is a prayer printed on one sheet, French-folded, to make four printable pages (8 total). This copy is inscribed by Thomas Merton: "Very gratefully and with the promise of special prayers in Christ Our Lord/ Fr. Louis Merton." Merton took the name Father Louis on entering the Abbey of Gethsemani. OCLC/Worldcat locates only two confirmed copies, none signed. According to a note by Carolyn Reading Hammer, wife of Victor Hammer, 54 copies were printed - of which Merton received 50 copies and Hammer retained four (info retrieved from Worldcat). This item is not listed in Dell'Isola, but is item 2.836 in Breit and Daggy and is listed in the title finder of Burton's bibliography. The only other place where it has been published is in Convivium 2 in Italian as "Preghiera al sacro cuore". An exceptionally uncommon Merton item.
Label
NUDSL
Record Number
1072
Reference Type
Manuscript
Picture
Year
1978
Title
Three High Points in Collecting at the Richard Gleeson Library / Donohue Rare Book Room / University of San Francisco
Notes
Soft cover printed by Lawton kennedy. This is a special limited edition version of the keepsake prepared for the 20th anniversary of the Gleeson Library Associates on October 9, 1977 which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the testimonial dinner for Father Gleeson which resulted in the decision to build the library at the University of San Francisco named for him. The three panels are of the printed jacket for Thomas Merton's "The Solitary Life"; the Utopian Alphabet as devised by Sir Thomas More (taken from the title page of the first edition of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"); and a page of the original calligraphic excercise done by Eric Gill (from the Eric Gill collection). Limited edition - 1 of 200.
Label
ULD
Type of Work
Soft cover fold out (three pannels) with one panel showing the front of the printed jacket for Thomas Merton's "The Solitary Life" which was printed at Lexington, Kentucky at the Stamperia Del Santuccio by Victor Hammer in 1960. This is a limited edition - 1/200. Short Title: Three High Points in Collecting at the Richard Gleeson Library / Donohue Rare Book Room / University of San Francisco