Ten Poems with One Title; | Poems | Robert Bringhurst | Engravings | Richard Wagener
[Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2022. Quarto, 27.4 x 19.9 cm. Cased in half black leather, with a leather fore-edge strip, and light grey paper over boards. The covering paper is printed along its vertical edges with narrow bands in red. Title printed in black to the upper cover. Matching black leather label lettered in gilt to the spine. Black leather endbands. Plain black endpapers. Top edges trimmed neatly; others untrimmed. The book is housed, together with a folded grey paper portfolio, in a black paper covered slipcase. Unpaginated [pp. 60]. A fine copy. The text was handset in Walbaum type by Apollonia Elsted, after designs by Crispin Elsted, and printed by her on Zerkall Smooth White Wove paper. Foundry Enge Wotan was used for display on the title-page and upper cover. Bringhurst’s text is accompanied by five abstract wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Richard Wagener. Each of the engravings was printed in red and black by Wagener at his Mixolydian Editions studio in Petaluma, California. The sheets were then sent to Barbarian and collated with the text pages. Additionally, a wood engraved Press device by Wagener embellishes the verso facing the colophon page. The device was printed from the block. The binding was done by Alanna Simenson of the Mad Hatter Bookbinding Company. From an edition of 125 copies issued in three states. This copy belongs to the ‘A’ or holographed state comprising 40 copies. It is accompanied by a bifolium housed in a paper portfolio. The bifolium is printed on the first verso with an additional black and red wood engraving by Wagener, and signed by him in pencil. Its second recto was holographed in ink by Bringhurst with a section of his poem. The bifolium is also editioned (this being copy ‘XXV’) and signed in pencil by Bringhurst. The bifolium is trimmed and folded to a size only slightly smaller than the text leaves (26 x 18.6 cm closed). Item #327
Price: $800.00