Caprices & grotesques : drawings / by Leonard Baskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000, artist.

Contributor:

Gehenna Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grotesque in art.

Caricature.

Animals, Mythical--Caricatures and cartoons.

Animals, Mythical.

Genre:

Private press books (Publishing) -- Gehenna Press.

Caricatures and cartoons.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

McGrath, Harold (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[18] leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Caprices and grotesques

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Gehenna Press, MCMLXV [1965].

Notes:

"Five hundred copies printed."

Issued in slipcase.

"A book of eighteen fantasies - a diablerie: witches, satyrs, caricatures, incubi, succubi and divers torments. The drawings are carefully reproduced from copper line engravings on Fabriano paper of varied tints. The size of the page is identical with this prospectus. The sheets are hand-sewn into heavy Fabriano cover and inserted into a labeled slip case. The edition consists of five hundred copies: the price is twenty dollars. Ten copies with an extra suite of all the drawings on Japan Vellum, the colophon signed by the Artist are priced at fifty dollars."-- Insert laid inside.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy without insert and slipcase. Copy gifted to former owner by Harold McGrath.

OCLC:

3349265