Voices in the Air
Mission, B.C. Barbarian Press, 1987. Octavo, 21.6 x 13.6 cm. Sewn into stiff card and wraps of Canson mi-teintes gris clair paper. Lettering in pale blue printed to the upper cover. Blue Mingei endsheets. Unpaginated [pp. 32]. A fine copy. The text was set in Bembo roman and Fairbanks italic, with Delphian used for display. It was printed by Jan Elsted on Frankfurt Laid paper. One of 100 copies, this being number 39. Signed in ink by Iain Higgins on the colophon page. Item #315
“This first collection by a new poet was something of a departure, but we liked the poems so much that we decided to do the book. In an echo of our own first attempts at printing, part of the agreement was that Iain would help us produce the book, although that was not a condition of the book’s being published. Iain learned to handset type very quickly, and following the design drawings made by CE he set nearly all of the book. The process of setting type brought the expected result of his re-thinking parts of the poems; this intimate connection with the text is a part of the experience of every writer-compositor. The book was small enough that the work was done in three visits of a few days each, & by the time it was completed Iain had not only set the type, but had joined the production line which folded, collated & sewed the book.” — Jan & Crispin Elsted (Utile Dulci, A16).
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