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Creator:
Hooker, Jeremy, 1941–
Title(s):
Itchen water / poems by Jeremy Hooker and etchings by Norman Ackroyd.
Published/Created:
[Winchester, Hampshire] : Winchester School of Art Press, 1982
Physical Description:
1 box ([49] p., [11] leaves of plates (1 folded)) : 10 ill., 1 map ; 37 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2012 19
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Ten etchings for ten poems, for a collaboration based on the landscape and history of the Itchen Valley. Poems printed letterpress in 14 pt Baskerville. 50 signed copies - 13 unbound 4pp sections with inserted prints ... on mould-made BFK paper in green cloth-covered solander box - 100 copies - 13 bound sections with tipped-in facsimile illustrations, in a hard cover. This book, though produced by Circle Press was published by Winchester School of Art in 1982."--Cooking the books.
"This edition comprises: fifty copies I-L signed by both poet and artist with ten initialled original etchings inserted into loose sections contained in a hand-made solander box (in addition there are six copies marked A.P. and four copies held for presentation), one hundred copies numbered 1-100, also signed ..., with tipped-in reproductions of the original plates and one initialled etching, bound into cloth covered boards"--Page [5].
Cooking the books : Ron King and Circle Press, p. 173
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. X of the limited edition of 50 signed copies. Reproduction of map, "Hantshire" (1615), laid in.
Subject Terms:
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
Circle Press -- Printer.
English poetry -- 20th century.
Itchen River (England)
Winchester School of Art Press -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Livres d'artistes.
Handmade papers (Paper)
Aquatints -- 1982.
Contributors:
Ackroyd, Norman, 1938– etcher.
Circle Press, printer.
Winchester School of Art, publisher.
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