CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE OF HANNAH DUSTON, RELATED BY COTTON MATHER, JOHH GREENLEAF WHITTIER, NATHANEIL HAWTHORNE AND HENRY DAVID THOREAU, FOUR VERSIONS OF EVENTS IN 1697, INTERSPERSED WITH THIRTY-FIVE WOOD-BLOCK PRINTS BY RICHARD BOSMAN

Bosman, Richard

Verlag: Arion Press, San Francisco, 1987

Beschreibung

folio. quarter cloth with covers covered in Sugikawashi, a special Japanese handmade paper, paper spine label. 53, (3) pages. Limited to 425 copies signed by Andrew Hoyem on the colophon page, with this copy being one of 25 copies signed by the author on the half-title page. A fine copy. With a lengthy introduction by Glenn Todd. Hoyem has commented on these wood-blocks and their striking appearance as "images of arresting moments from this dark drama in his woodcuts that appear on each page of the four narrations, giving a parallel visual interpretation throughout the book." The twenty-fourth Arion Press edition. The types are Frederic W. Goudy's Kennerley Bold, handset for the main texts, composed in Monotype for the introduction and subsidiary material, with Rudolf Koch's Neuland Inline for display. The paper is Rives heavyweight, a mouldmade sheet from France. Members of the Press include: Kevin Ahern, Mary Bisbee, G. B. Carson, Matthew Kelsey, Gerald Reddan, Glenn Todd, and Lawrence Van Velzer. quarter cloth with covers covered in Sugikawashi, a special Japanese handmade paper, paper spine label. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 40349

Bibliografische Details

Titel: CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE OF HANNAH DUSTON, ...

Verlag: Arion Press, San Francisco

Erscheinungsdatum: 1987

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Arion Press

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers