Leonard Baskin | 1922 - 2000; | a recollection & an engraving by Barry Moser.
s.l. [Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2000. Sewn with white thread into wraps of Ingres Franciscan Brown paper. Title printed in red to the upper cover. Unpaginated [pp. 8]. Two minor spots to the lower cover, else a fine copy. The text was set in Van Dijck and Bembo and printed on Frankfurt Laid paper. A wood engraved portrait of Baskin by Barry Moser is tipped to the verso of the title-page, facing the opening page of text. The wood engraving is signed in pencil by Moser. From an edition of 150 unnumbered copies. (Hoi Barbaroi, B27). Item #319
“I hope that my friend of thirty years now rests in peace. The world will be a less rich and exciting place now that we will have no more of his delicious and stunning surprises wrought in plaster, wood, and type, no more shocks of unbridled Baskinite beauty. And I pray— and this would likely piss him off— that whatever angel of peace there might be in the universe— perhaps a dark angel of Leonard’s own invention, plumed & taloned, beaked & shrouded in ancient and cryptic Hebrew letters— is watching over him, escorting him through regions of the mind that even Leonard couldn’t imagine. […] I am mighty grateful that I knew him and that he was my mentor.” — Barry Moser.
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