Accession number
PML 196476
Creator
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886, author.
Published
New York City : Granary Books, March 2012.
Credit line
Purchased on the Harry S. Morgan Fund, 2016.
Notes
Title from colophon.
"Each copy of The Gorgeous Nothings includes: A portfolio of 48 unbound double-sided color manuscript facsimiles on Red River Aurora Natural paper. The 47 manuscript facsimiles show the front and back of each Dickinson fragment at 100% scale accompanied by smaller visual transcriptions in blue; one index print is included. The portfolio wrap replicates page forms from manuscript A 821 / A 821a, and is made from Ruscombe David Cox with a cotton tape lift. The portfolio interior base is lined with royal blue Shikibu Gampi-shi paper over lignin free conservation board. Portfolio dimensions: 11 1/2" x 14 3/4" Print dimensions: 11" x 14" A 52-page essay by Marta Werner: "Itineraries of Escape: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems" with seven digital prints tipped-in. The bound soft cover in Saint Armand Dark Linen with royal blue Shikibu Gampi-shi endpapers replicates page forms from A 821 / A 821a. The text is printed letterpress by Friedrich Kerksieck on Byron Weston Linen Ledger White. Essay dimensions: 10" x 7 1/2" A 32-page guide with visual indexes, a directory of manuscripts, a postscript and a colophon. The cover paper is Ruscombe Vert Forêt, the interior paper is Byron Weston Linen Ledger Bright White. Guide dimensions: 9" x 11 1/2""--Publisher's web catalogue, adding some details to the description in the printed colophon.
The Gorgeous Nothings is published in an edition of 50 + 10 hors commerce.
Library's copy is numbered 49.
"Each copy of The Gorgeous Nothings includes: A portfolio of 48 unbound double-sided color manuscript facsimiles on Red River Aurora Natural paper. The 47 manuscript facsimiles show the front and back of each Dickinson fragment at 100% scale accompanied by smaller visual transcriptions in blue; one index print is included. The portfolio wrap replicates page forms from manuscript A 821 / A 821a, and is made from Ruscombe David Cox with a cotton tape lift. The portfolio interior base is lined with royal blue Shikibu Gampi-shi paper over lignin free conservation board. Portfolio dimensions: 11 1/2" x 14 3/4" Print dimensions: 11" x 14" A 52-page essay by Marta Werner: "Itineraries of Escape: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems" with seven digital prints tipped-in. The bound soft cover in Saint Armand Dark Linen with royal blue Shikibu Gampi-shi endpapers replicates page forms from A 821 / A 821a. The text is printed letterpress by Friedrich Kerksieck on Byron Weston Linen Ledger White. Essay dimensions: 10" x 7 1/2" A 32-page guide with visual indexes, a directory of manuscripts, a postscript and a colophon. The cover paper is Ruscombe Vert Forêt, the interior paper is Byron Weston Linen Ledger Bright White. Guide dimensions: 9" x 11 1/2""--Publisher's web catalogue, adding some details to the description in the printed colophon.
The Gorgeous Nothings is published in an edition of 50 + 10 hors commerce.
Library's copy is numbered 49.
Description
1 box : illustrations, facsimiles ; 38 x 30 x 4 cm + 1 unbound booklet (52 pages) + 47 facsimiles + 1 volume (unpaged) + 7 prints
Summary
"The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner is a limited edition artist book based on Emily Dickinson's late compositions on envelopes. The edition includes a portfolio of nearly fifty high-resolution double-sided color facsimiles with visual transcriptions. Marta Werner's lyric essay, "Itineraries of Escape: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems," provides the scholarly, historic, and poetic context for these exquisite late writings by Dickinson. The edition is accompanied by a guide with a bibliographic directory for the fragments and a series of visual indexes"--Publisher's web catalogue.
Binding
Publisher's light tan archival box, decorated with an original line drawing in blue pencil, and a hand-painted seal of gum arabic, and gouache.
Classification
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