Accession number
PML 78625b
Creator
Neuman, Robert S.
Published
Seal Harbor, Maine : High Loft, c1983.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. August Heckscher, 1985.
Notes
Portfolio and half t.p. have title: Ship to paradise.
6 leaves of etchings with introductory essay entitled "Of ships and fools", by John C. Olin, with head- and tail-piece etchings adorning the first page of text and the colophon; 5 of the 6 etchings are printed in black and white, with etching no. 6 printed in sienna ink.
"Of this portfolio of etchings, 50 copies have been made by a collaboration of islanders at the Printing Office of High Loft at Seal Harbor, Maine ... The work was completed in the summer of 1983"--Colophon.
Issued as an accompanying work to the press's earlier publication: The shyp of fooles / by Sebastian Brandt ; translated by Alexander Barclay, 1509 ; edited by Phyllis C. Robinson. Seal Harbor, Me. : Printed and sold at High Loft, 1982.
Individual etchings accompanied by letterpress guard sheets.
Library has copy no. 9 of 50 copies.
Library's copy housed with PML 78625a, "Shyp of fooles / by Sebastian Brandt ... Printed and sold at High Loft, 1982".
6 leaves of etchings with introductory essay entitled "Of ships and fools", by John C. Olin, with head- and tail-piece etchings adorning the first page of text and the colophon; 5 of the 6 etchings are printed in black and white, with etching no. 6 printed in sienna ink.
"Of this portfolio of etchings, 50 copies have been made by a collaboration of islanders at the Printing Office of High Loft at Seal Harbor, Maine ... The work was completed in the summer of 1983"--Colophon.
Issued as an accompanying work to the press's earlier publication: The shyp of fooles / by Sebastian Brandt ; translated by Alexander Barclay, 1509 ; edited by Phyllis C. Robinson. Seal Harbor, Me. : Printed and sold at High Loft, 1982.
Individual etchings accompanied by letterpress guard sheets.
Library has copy no. 9 of 50 copies.
Library's copy housed with PML 78625a, "Shyp of fooles / by Sebastian Brandt ... Printed and sold at High Loft, 1982".
Description
[16] leaves : ill. (etching) ; 35 cm
Provenance
August Heckscher.
Binding
Unbound leaves issued in portfolio of blue board, with leather title label on front, by Gray Parrot; housed in a linen clamshell box with printed label reading: Shyp of fooles Sebastian Brandt - Ship to paradise Robert S. Neuman.
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