Encantadas : two sketches from Herman Melville's Enchanted isles / with woodcuts by Rico Lebrun; [cut by Leonard Baskin].

Accession number: 
PML 146854
Author: 
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Published: 
Northampton [Mass.] Printed at the Gehenna Press, 1963.
Description: 
[21] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 63 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Text includes two selections from Melville's ten sketches published under the title The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles, "The isles at large" and "Two sides to a tortoise", with 6 woodcuts of tortoises illustrating the latter selection.
T.p. printed in red and black, rubrications within the text and illustration printed in red on colophon page.
"One hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed at the Gehenna Press ... The woodcuts were drawn on cherry blocks by Rico Lebrun and were cut by Leonard Baskin. The paper used for the text is Copperplate and Shogun for the woodcuts. Harold McGrath was the pressman. Bembo is the type used throughout. The work finished during the month of March Mcmlxiii ... Numbers 32-150 have the single set of woodcuts and the colophon is signed by Rico Lebrun and Leonard Baskin."--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 110, with the colophon signed in pencil by Lebrun and Baskin.

Binding: 
Unbound sheets in portfolio housed in matching blue-cloth slipcase with a green leather label on front panel, lettered in gold and stamped with a design after one of the work's 6 woodcuts; as issued.
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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