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Urban birds : a collection of cuts / by Jo Spaul ; illustrated with a selection of suitable verse.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Incline Press 46
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spaul, Jo, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birds--Poetry.
- Birds.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Ehrhardt.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Old Style.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Hyperion.
- Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Silver tooled bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Poems.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [56] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Oldham, England] : Incline Press, MIM [1999]
- Contents:
- Take any bird / Chaucer
- Ducks / F.W. Harvey
- Crow / Frances Minturn Howard
- Today / Ralph Hodgson
- Two sparrows / Humbert Wolfe
- 328 / Emily Dickinson
- The cuckoo
- Magpies in Picardy / T.P. Cameron Wilson
- A memory / William Allingham
- The return of the goodfinches / Sylvia Lynd
- The October redbreast / Alice Meynell
- Songbirds for sale / Eleanor Farjeon
- Hymn to Moloch / Ralph Hodgson
- To be or not to be
- The blackbird
- Jenny and Robin
- The jackdaw / William Cowper
- Little trotty wagtail / John Clare
- The linnet / Walter de la Mare
- Magpies
- Crows
- Point of view / Jim Burns.
- Notes:
- "Jo Spaul cut all the images, and Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen edited the text at Incline Press ..."--Page [55].
- "In this edition of a hundred and eighty copies, the editorial matter is set in Ehrhardt types, the contributors' list in Goudy Old Style and the poems, most pleasingly, in the rare and attractive Hyperion, designed by Berthold Wolpe. The paper is Zerkall antik-jutemeliert. The printing was done by the publishers who also hand set the type, folded the sheets, gathered them together and delivered them to the bindery. There they were hand sewn and cased in black cloth by Stephen Conway and Elaine Lonsdale, with slipcases made for the twenty-five special copies. This is copy number [blank]"--Colophon.
- Title in black and blue.
- Binding: full black cloth; title stamped in silver on left board and spine; illustration stamped in blind on left board; deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed). Some copies housed in slip case.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 62 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 180 copies. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 43536519
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