The flute of sardonyx / Edmund John ; Images & introduction by Nicholas Wilde.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• John, Edmund, author.

Contributor:

• Wilde, Nicholas, illustrator, writer of introduction.
• McDowall, Nicolas, printer.
• Krimpen, Jan van, 1892-1958, type designer.
• Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, type designer.
• Roos, S. H. de (Sjoerd Hendrik), 1877-1962, type designer.
• Hughes, Bill, typographer.
• Lack, Adrian, printer.
• Old Stile Press, publisher, printer.
• Senecio Press, printer.
• Fine Bindery (Firm), binder.
• Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
• Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English poetry--20th century.
• Pedophilia--Poetry.
• Pedophilia.

Genre:

• Poetry.
• Private press books (Printing)
• Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
• Limitation statements (Publishing)
• Printers' devices (Publishing)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Spectrum.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Libra.
• Case bindings (Binding)
• Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
• Slipcases (Binding)
• Illustrated works.
• Poems.
• Autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

• Wilde, Nicholas (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
• Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
• Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
• Wilde, Nicholas (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

77, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Llandogo] : The Old Stile Press, [1991]

Notes:

• "This re-presentation of Edmund John's original text for The flute of sardonyx was completed, in the autumn of 1991, by Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press, Catchmays Court, Llandogo, near Monmouth, Gwent ... The twelve point Spectrum type was set by Bill Hughes. Centraur & Libra were used for display. The paper is Rivoli. Nicholas Wilde's sixteen pencil images were printed at The Senecio Press, by Adrian Lack ... The books were bound at The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, using papers printed at The Old Stile Press with designs by Nicholas Wilde. All copies are signed by the artist. The main edition ... consists of 260 numbered copies. There is also a special edition ... of twenty-six copies, lettered A-Z. This is [blank]"--Colophon.
• "Spectrum type, Monotype set by Bill Hughes, Centaur and Libra type, handset by Nicolas McDowall. Printed on Rivoli paper on a FAG Control 900 press. 16 pencil drawings, litho printed by Adrian Lack of the Senecio Press. Bound by The Fine Bindery. Quarter cloth, spine titling blocked in gilt, boards covered in purple Ingres paper printed in a deeper tone of purple with an outline nude image of a boy. Blue Colorplan endpapers. All edges trimmed. Slipcase covered in blue cloth with grey Ingres paper sides printed with a profile head. 260 copies, signed by the artist. 26 special copies with matching portfolio containing an original drawing by the artist and prints of the illustrations on separate sheets of Rivoli paper. Slipcase as for the ordinary edition but larger to accommodate the portfolio."--Harrop.
• Title leaf and colophon printed in black and red.
• Publisher's device on title leaf.

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
• Kislak Center copy is number 59.
• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 96 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 260 copies signed by the 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: slip case retained.

Cited in:

Harrop, D.A. Old Stile Press-- in the 20th century, page 84

ISBN:

• 0907664296
• 9780907664291
• 090766430X
• 9780907664307

OCLC:

26544993

Online:

The Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund Home Page