Accession number
PML 195713
Creator
Moser, Barry.
Published
[North Hatfield, Mass. : Pennyroyal Press, 2010]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2011.
Notes
Statement of responsibility and imprint from publisher's invoice; date of publication from spine label on case.
"Twenty-five impressions of each of the thirty-one prints Barry Moser designed, drew, and engraved...have been printed on an archival sheet from the Zerkall Paper Mill in Hürtgenwald-Zerkall, Germany. ... have been printed on an archival sheet ...by the preeminent American printer, Arthur Larson, at his letterpress studio, Horton Tank Graphics in Hadley, Massachusetts. ... The cases and bindings were designed and built by Sarah Creighton..."--Pennyroyal Press website.
Includes first edition of: Mark Twain's Book of Animals. Ed. by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Illustrations by Barry Moser. Texts established by The Mark Twain Project, The Bancroft Library. Jumping Frogs n. 3. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-520-24855-7. Composed by BookMatters, Berkeley. Printed by Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group. Designed by Barry Moser.
"The prints are signed and numbered from 1 to 25.... 1 to 5 are hors commerce, reserved for the artist and his family."--Publisher's website.
Library has copy no. 11 of 25.
"Twenty-five impressions of each of the thirty-one prints Barry Moser designed, drew, and engraved...have been printed on an archival sheet from the Zerkall Paper Mill in Hürtgenwald-Zerkall, Germany. ... have been printed on an archival sheet ...by the preeminent American printer, Arthur Larson, at his letterpress studio, Horton Tank Graphics in Hadley, Massachusetts. ... The cases and bindings were designed and built by Sarah Creighton..."--Pennyroyal Press website.
Includes first edition of: Mark Twain's Book of Animals. Ed. by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Illustrations by Barry Moser. Texts established by The Mark Twain Project, The Bancroft Library. Jumping Frogs n. 3. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-520-24855-7. Composed by BookMatters, Berkeley. Printed by Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group. Designed by Barry Moser.
"The prints are signed and numbered from 1 to 25.... 1 to 5 are hors commerce, reserved for the artist and his family."--Publisher's website.
Library has copy no. 11 of 25.
Description
31 leaves of plates in portfolio : all ill. (Resingrave) ; 26 cm + 1 book (325 p. : ill. ; 26 cm)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by artist on t.p. of trade edition; frontispiece numbered 11/25 in ink.
Binding
Loose sheets in chemise, issued with copy of trade edition and enclosed in drop-spine box, all covered in olive silk cloth, designed and hand-bound by Sarah Creighton, Easthampton, Mass.
Classification
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