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Cape Town Days
And Other Poems

Item date(s): 1988/9

Stephen Watson  - (poems by)
Pippa Skotnes  - (illustrated by)
Peter Carstens  - (bookbinding by)


Pages: 34pp
Size: 370mm
Inscription: Signed by the poet
Edition: #15/25 of 30.


Place publication: Cape Town, RSA
Publisher: Cecil Skotnes & Clarke's Bookshop
Cat. 208
Exhibition 1996

Additional notes:
Colophon: "This private edition has 14 original etchings by Pippa Skotnes. Each copy is signed by the author and each etching is signed and numbered by the artist. All the etching were printed from the copper plates on Buetten paper by the artist with the assistance of Jo Ractliffe. The text is typeset in 12 on 14 point Monotype Perpetua and printed on a hand press by Neville Sardienne of Gwynne Press, Salt River, South Africa."

Quarter-bound in French Goatskin by Peter Castens. Lithographic image on front and back covers. Slipcase.



Exhibition notes:
Item 208 in the exhibition 'Artists Books in the Ginsberg Collection' at the Johannesburg Art Gallery 25/8/96-27/10/96.

Ref: GB/06944











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