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Waterlines
Orpheus on Sappho's Shore

Item date(s): 2009

Eleanor Wilner  - (text by)
Luna Pearl Woolf  - (music by)
Michael Kuch  - (woodcuts by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 328mm, oblong
Inscription: Signed by all participants
Edition: #36/50


Publisher: The Double Elephant Press

Additional notes:
Co-published by The Oxingale Press.

Appears to be missing the music CD.

Housed in a drop-back box with the full folded print which is comprised of all twelve illustrations in Waltelines.

Colophon:

The 12-block "Drowned Man" woodcut, Noah's Ark Come Raven" engravings & the letterpress were printed by Art Larson, still afloat at his Horton Tank in Hadley, Massachusetts. Takuji Hamanaka printed the "Sappho & Orpheus woodcuts in Brooklyn, New York.

The Kozo sheets were hand made by the Yamaki paper mill in Fukui, Japan. Boxcar Press produced the polymer plates from the script of Eleanor Wilner, musical notation of Luna Pearl Woolf, the drawn staves & titling of Michael Kuch.

The 10 point Van Dijck lead type was cast by Michael & Winifred Bixler. The "Drowned Man" was cut on cypress planks, the "Sappho & Orpheus" images were cut on shine plywood, & the "Noah's Ark come Raven" series were engraved on olive wood end-grain from the Holy Land 7 printed on Shikibu Gampi, Sarah Creighton made the paste papers for the dos-à-dos dinding's covers & bound the dition of fifty.

Ref: GB/15734







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