Poem About Nothing.
Kingston, Ontario: Locks’ Press, 1995. 26.8 x 16.6 cm, when folded. Loose single sheet, folded into 8 leaves in accordion style, and printed on one side only. Tipped-in to a portfolio style binding with grey linen spines, boards covered variously in dark blue and greyish teal Japanese paper, printed labels to the spine and upper cover, and variously teal, mauve, and beige Japanese endpapers. Unpaginated. A fine copy. The Provençal text was set in Baskerville, with Fred Lock’s translation into English appearing below it in the accompanying italic; printed on Twinrockere handmade linen paper. Illustrated with seven colour woodcuts by Margaret Lock, cut in 3/4 inch Baltic birch plywood. An Initial letter, cut by Lock in Basswood, was used for the opening of the first verse. One of 80 copies, signed by Margaret Lock on the colophon, of which this is number 72. Item #164
Price: $335.00