Accession number
PML 195572
Creator
Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
Published
[Rockport, Me.] : The Gehenna Press, 1998.
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund for Poetry, 2011.
Notes
"One hundred & ten copies of Howls & Whispers were printed ... Copies numbered 1-10 comprise the deluxe edition & contain three water-color drawings by Leonard Baskin, a second suite of the etchings (the ones originally printed in black are hand-touched in color by Baskin), one copperplate & a leaf of Ted Hughes' manuscript. Copies numbered 11-110 constitute the regular edition"--Colophon.
"The paper was handmade in Italy. The letterpress in Centaur types was achieved by Arthur Larson of Hadley, Mass. The etchings were printed in color from the copperplates by Michael Kuch. The book has been bound by Claudia Cohen of Easthampton, Mass."--Colophon.
Title and colophon printed in red and black.
"... strays from the series [Birthday Letters], published here ... enhance & form an amplification to 'Birthday Letters'"--Prospectus.
Autograph corrected manuscript leaf in Morgan copy is of the poem, "The Hidden Orestes," and differs somewhat from the printed version.
PML has copy no. 4.
"The paper was handmade in Italy. The letterpress in Centaur types was achieved by Arthur Larson of Hadley, Mass. The etchings were printed in color from the copperplates by Michael Kuch. The book has been bound by Claudia Cohen of Easthampton, Mass."--Colophon.
Title and colophon printed in red and black.
"... strays from the series [Birthday Letters], published here ... enhance & form an amplification to 'Birthday Letters'"--Prospectus.
Autograph corrected manuscript leaf in Morgan copy is of the poem, "The Hidden Orestes," and differs somewhat from the printed version.
PML has copy no. 4.
Description
[40] p., [11] leaves of plates, interleaved : ill. (etchings, some col.) ; 30 cm; in box: 32 cm
Binding
Bound in full red and black calf by Claudia Cohen, with gold tooling, and decorated paste papers; issued with three cloth-bound portfolios in drop-spine box.
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