Body of Water
s.l. [Toronto]: Barbara & Richard Outram | The Gauntlet Press, 1979 [given on the colophon page]. 16.4 x 13.4 cm. Sewn (not to show) into wraps of green, grey, orange, dark blue, and pale gold stone patterned marbled paper. The text-block consists of a single gathering of double-leaves, sewn into the wrapper through endsheets and pastedowns of purple and rust Japanese paper. Unpaginated [ll. 2 double-leaves]. The first leaf is printed on the recto with the half-title in olive; its verso is blank. The second leaf is printed on the recto with Outram’s poem and a wood engraving by Barbara Howard; its verso bears the colophon. Almost imperceptible rubbing along the wrapper’s spine-fold and extremities; and very mild offsetting from Howard’s wood engraving to the facing blank verso. A fine copy. Howard’s semi-abstract wood engraving, which depicts an aerial view of a pond, was printed in olive with Outram’s text overprinted in black. The text was set in Bembo and printed on an unidentified white wove paper. From an edition of 40 unnumbered copies bound and issued. A further 44 sets of sheets were produced but unbound (McLeod 1999, 34). Item #354
Price: $235.00