Bonne Bay
St. John’s, Newfoundland: walking bird press, [2001; dated ’02 in pencil on the colophon page]. 7.8 x 5.3 cm. Miniature concertina structure, tipped to boards covered with green St-Armand paper. The upper cover is titled and the lower cover is lettered with the imprint in black. Lighter green St-Armand endleaves. Housed in a slipcase of light grey St-Armand paper, with a dark teal silk ribbon pull. Unpaginated [ll. 28, excluding concertina endpapers]. A fine copy. Three strips of paper are joined to produce 24 concertina-fold leaves. A line engraving depicting Bonne Bay, by Tara Bryan, spans one side of the entire structure. The engraving was printed in black. The structure is tipped to concertina-fold endleaves. A bifolium, printed with the title-page to the first recto and a single page of text to the second recto, is tipped and nested in the front endleaves. The text is a poem by Tara Bryan. A second bifolium, printed with only the colophon to the second recto, is tipped and nested in the rear endleaves. The text was set in 6 pt Garamond, the title in 16 pt Garamond italic, and the cover lettering in 16 pt Garamond Bold. Printed by Tara Bryan on Twinrocker laid text paper. From an edition of 50 copies. The present copy is number 45. Signed in pencil by Tara Bryan on the colophon page. Item #422
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