Only love /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Cruz :
Peter and Donna Thomas,
2016.
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| Item Description: | "Fourteen haiku poems by master jeweler Albion Smith have been letterpress printed from printing plates made by Albion using 1,217 letters individually hand-cut from jewelers' sheet copper. The six different colored sheets of paper used for the edition were made from Albion's workclothes. The text was bound in full leather using black pigskin, with a example of Albion's copper pierce-work inlaid on the cover." -- Publisher's website, http://www.baymoon.com/~peteranddonna/2-only.htm. Accompanied by a 29 page booklet titled: Making the book, Only love : a collaboration between Peter & Donna Thomas and Albion Smith. "Albion Smith is a jeweler and silversmith. His work is in the Smithsonian. Peter and Albion made the paper from Albion's workshirts, then printed the text and illustrations using Albion's hand-cut copper letters and embellishments mounted on metal plates. Donna bound the book with Albion's bronze pierce-work on the front cover. 26 lettered copies reserved for the author. 30 numbered copies. This is copy ..." -- Colophon. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy is number24. Purchased for the Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design collection by The Cushing Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 19 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 x 21 cm + 1 booklet (29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 x 21 cm) |
| 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. |