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The life horse / Susan Starr Richards.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Larkspur Press 82
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Susan Starr, 1938- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Specimens.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- American poetry -- 21st century.
- Poetry.
- letterpress printing.
- Pastoral poetry, American.
- Pastoral poetry.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Ratdolt.
- Physical Description:
- 74 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Monterey, Kentucky : Larkspur Press, [2005]
- Notes:
- "This book was handset in Garamond type designed by Morris Benton for ATF after the work of Jean Jannon, a master printer in seventeenth century Paris. Ratdolt type, designed by Victor Hammer, was used for display. 500 copies were printed on Mohawk Superfine paper on a hand fed C & P. 45 copies were printed on were printed on Magnani Velata paper and handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. The drawings, by Richard H. Wooten, are based on a Chinese jade horse's head from the Han Dynasty, and a cave painting from Lascaux, France, ca. 17,000-12,000 B.C. Design, composition, printing and regular edition binding by Leslie Shane and Gray Zeitz at Larkspur Press. Published by Peggy Norman and Gray Zeitz."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Larkspur Press 82: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck in 2018. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 64770089
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