The seafarer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crossley-Holland, Kevin, translator, autographer.

Lawrance, Inger, wood-engraver, autographer.

McDowall, Nicolas, printer, typographer.

Wolpe, Berthold, type designer.

Fine Bindery (Firm), binder.

Old Stile Press, publisher, printer.

Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne, papermaker.

Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Seafarer (Anglo-Saxon poem). English (Crossley-Holland)

Language:

English

English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Subjects (All):

Sea poetry, English (Old)--Translations into English.

Sea poetry, English (Old).

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Printers' devices (Publishing)

Modern laid papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Albertus.

Japanese sewing (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Translations.

Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Lawrance, Inger (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Crossley-Holland, Kevin (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Lawrance, Inger (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Crossley-Holland, Kevin (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[48] leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 27 cm

Place of Publication:

[Llandogo] : [The Old Stile Press], [1988]

Language Note:

English translation of: The seafarer. Originally published in The Anglo-Saxon world (Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 1982).

Notes:

"Inger Lawrence cut all the images on wood ... Kevin Crossley-Holland prepared the text from the Anglo-Saxon ... first published in 'The Anglo-Saxon world' published by Boydell & Brewer. Nicolas McDowall hand-set the Albertus types and completed the printing of the book in June 1988 at The Old Stile Press, Catchmays Court, Llandogo, nr Monmouth, Gwent ... The paper is Zerkall Silurian. The binding is by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough. The edition consists of 240 copies, numbered and signed by writer and artist. This is number [blank]"--Colophon.

"Albertus type, handset by Nicolas McDowall. Printed on Zerkall irregular laid silurian paper on a Victoria platen press. 42 wood cuts of which 9 are in two colours. Printed, from the wood, on one side of the sheet only, folded and stitched in the Japanese manner. Bound by The Fine Bindery. The book is laced into buff coloured printed card covers, with a black ribbon, and is contained in a portfolio of limp jute, lined with blue buckram and laced with ties of bookbinder's tape."--Harrop.

Publisher's device at colophon.

"Words and images in this modern English version allow the reader to contemplate and reflect on the sea in all its moods, and the "whale road" as a metaphor for life"--Publisher's promotional material.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Kislak Center copy is no. 100.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 76 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 240 copies numbered and signed by writer and artist. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: portfolio retained.

Cited in:

Harrop, D.A. Old Stile Press-- in the 20th century, page 66

OCLC:

1008156493