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Priest & A dead priestess speaks / H.D.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1942
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Priest
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology, Greek--Poetry.
- Mythology, Greek.
- Bookbinding--United States--Specimens.
- Bookbinding.
- United States.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry
- Specimens
- Poetry.
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing) -- United States -- 20th century.
- Private press books (Publishing) -- Washington -- Port Townsend.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Castellar.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Misc 1942)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Misc 1942)
- Physical Description:
- 39 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Priest and A dead priestess speaks
- Dead priestess speaks
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend [Washington] : Copper Canyon Press, [1983]
- Notes:
- Two poems.
- "This first book issued with the new pressmark, adopted in Copper Canyon's tenth year, was printed in the summer by Tree Swenson in an edition of two hundred and thirty copies with hand set twelve point Bembo and twenty-four point Castellar types on Frankfurt paper. The book was hand bound by Marsha Hollingsworth who also collaborated with Tree Swenson on the design of the book. All illustrations are adapted from Greek vase paintings, the two on the interior by the printer and the cover by Phyllis Hopeck, who also directed the silkscreening of the image onto Canson paper from the screen prepared by Drew Elicker."--Colophon.
- Bound in black cloth and yellow-orange, black, and violet illustrated paper over boards; printed paper label on spine.
- Local Notes:
- Exhibited: "Across the Spectrum: Color in American Fine and Private Press Books, 1890-2015," University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, February 15 - May 23, 2016. ‡5 PU
- Misc 1942: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck.
- OCLC:
- 12970755
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