Accession number
PML 195027
Creator
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Published
[Octon, France] : Verdigris Press, [2006]
Credit line
Purchased on the Carter Burden Fund, 2008.
Notes
First edition with these illustrations.
Originally published in "Geography III" in 1976.
According to the artist and printer, the date of publication, February 5, 2006, was the third anniversary of Colin Powell's speech to the UN Security Council. Parts of that speech are printed in black on the blood red recto of the rear free endpaper.
"This edition is presented with two original mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Eight fragments were cut out of the second copper plate and these were also printed in the text corresponding to the indications given by the author. The edition of fifty was printed on Hahnemühle paper and bound in the Japanese style. The mezzotints and screen-prints on the covers, slipcases and boxes, were printed by the artist ... Printed by Mark Lentott, who made the bindings, slipcases, and boxes ..."--colophon.
Printed on one side of leaf only.
Pagination includes rear free endpaper.
No. 34/50, signed by Rothchild and Lintott.
Originally published in "Geography III" in 1976.
According to the artist and printer, the date of publication, February 5, 2006, was the third anniversary of Colin Powell's speech to the UN Security Council. Parts of that speech are printed in black on the blood red recto of the rear free endpaper.
"This edition is presented with two original mezzotints by Judith Rothchild. Eight fragments were cut out of the second copper plate and these were also printed in the text corresponding to the indications given by the author. The edition of fifty was printed on Hahnemühle paper and bound in the Japanese style. The mezzotints and screen-prints on the covers, slipcases and boxes, were printed by the artist ... Printed by Mark Lentott, who made the bindings, slipcases, and boxes ..."--colophon.
Printed on one side of leaf only.
Pagination includes rear free endpaper.
No. 34/50, signed by Rothchild and Lintott.
Description
[15] leaves : ill. ; 30 x 46 cm.
Binding
Gray boards, red cloth trim, in matching slipcase.
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