Terra contigua [or Border country /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Brecon, Wales] :
[Red Hen Press],
[2009]
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| Item Description: | An artist's book. With poems and accompanying images in a series of six unsewn folios, with unryushi sheets tipped in as interleaving between illustrations. Folios lay unbound in a portfolio made of paper-covered boards. Front cover has door-like panels that open by hand-made paper handles. Each panel has been letterpressed with a gilted letter "V" or "T" in gold. The porfolio lay in a second portfolio of navy cloth-covered boards with full title printed in gilt lettering on leather panel on spine. Issued in navy cloth-covered slipcase. "Terra Contigua or Border Country is a visual response by Shirley Jones to the poetry & prose of Henry Vaughan & Thomas Traherne, two spiritual visionary poets, living on either side of the Welsh border during & in the aftermath of the English Civil War. The introductory texts were set at Gwasg Gregynog, in 14 point Baskerville typeface, but set in the main in 18 & 24 point Baskerville by Shirley Jones, & printed by her throughout on 300 gram Somerset mouldmade paper, & on Unryushi tissue. The book consists of six unsewn folios, two of which figure blind printed etchings, & two which each enclose three images inspired by the words of Vaughan & Traherne. Beautiful blue Amate handmade paper was, from the book's conception, to be an integral part of the design for John Sewell's folding construction, with custom-made lining papers by Maureen Richardson. Enclosed in a slip-case, & in an edition of forty..."--Colophon. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy is no. 37 and is signed and dated by the author. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy contains a publisher's advertisement. Purchased for the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive by The Cushing Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 37 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Related Items: | The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive. |