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The Writer

Item date(s): 2004

Richard Wilbur
Charles Hobson  - (illustrated by)


Pages: unpaged & 24pp
Size: 305mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: #37/54


Place publication: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: Pacific Editions

Additional notes:
The full text has been printed letterpress by Charles Hobson on a Vandercook S-20 using polymer plates set in 14-point Courier on BFK Rives. These pages have been inerleaved with vellum sheets printed with digital pigment prints and hand cut with the shapes of a starling in flight based on drawings by Charles Hobson. The accompanying flip book, or "flutter book", containing a selction of certain words from the poem, has been bound as an accordion and scored so as to permit viewing in an extended manner. The images in the flutter book have been made and printed as digital pigment prints on an Epson 2200 printer. The volume containing the full text has been bound in boards and covered with a cloth spine. It and the flutter book are contained in a fabric clamshell box which holds at its back a digital pigment print hand colored with pastel by the artist. Charles Hobson designed and assembled the edtion with the assistance of Alice Shaw. Jhohn DeMerritt, with the assistance of Kris Langan, made the covers and the boxes.

Item 97 of Catalogue 32 - Priscilla Juvelis Rare Books.

Illustrated on page 266 of "Book Art Object", The Codex Foundation, 2008.

Ref: GB/10143



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