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Soledad : songs of loneliness / Federico García Lorca, poems; Manuel Neri, drawings; Thomas Ingmire, calligraphy; Mary Julia Klimenko, introduction.

Accession number
PML 196156
Creator
Neri, Manuel, 1930-
Published
2009.
Credit line
Gift of Anne Kohs, 2015.
Notes
Neri's nine original drawings, mounted on double leaves and signed, are part of the Kneeling Figure Study series, executed in 1981.
"The binding structure and leather binding for the book were designed by Daniel E. Kelm and produced by Daniel E. Kelm, Kylin Lee and other mechanics at the Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Massachusetts. ... handmade paper-covered box produced by [Peggy Gotthold at] Foolscap Press in Santa Cruz, California."--Colophon.
"The calligraphy for the introduction, biographies, and colophon was done by Akiho Sugiyama"--Colophon.
The introduction, biographies, and colophon translated into Spanish by Jaime Moreno Villarreal. Lorca's poetry rendered into English by various translators from Federico García Lorca: Collected Poems (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2002).
Description
1 vol. (unpaged) : ill. ; 49 cm; in case: 53 cm
Summary
A unique handmade artist's book with original drawings by Manuel Neri and four poems by Lorca, designed, handwritten, and illuminated by Thomas Ingmire.
Binding
Full blue goatskin hand-tooled and die-stamped on upper and lower boards in gilt, with black and grey-green leather onlays, by Daniel Kelm. Housed in paper-covered box with collaged elements, ink, and gold leaf, designed by Thomas Ingmire.
Classification
Department