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Tortoises : six poems
- Title
- Tortoises : six poems / by D.H. Lawrence ; illustrated with wood engravings by Alan James Robinson ; with an introduction by Jefferson Hunter.
- Author
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
- Publication
- Williamsburg, Mass. : Cheloniidae Press, 1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. Amer. 1983 92-70 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- [51] p. : ill.; 29 cm. +
- Genre/Form
- Drawings – United States – 20th century.
- Note
- 300 copies printed in black and brown at Hampshire Typothetae, Northampton, Mass., including 100 copies on cream Fabriano Perusia paper. No. IX of 10 copies on Fabriano bound in full vellum and accompanied by portfolio; signed in pencil by the artist.
- Designed by the artist and Arthur Larson.
- Illustrations: 7 prints from 8 blocks : wood engraving, b&w ; full-page (image 16 x 11 cm. or smaller). The ill. to "Tortoise shell" is printed from 2 blocks. Subject: Tortoises. -- 1 print : etching, b&w ; full-page (plate mark 11 x 8 cm.). Subject: Frontispiece port. of Lawrence. Captioned and signed in pencil.
- Binding: Publisher's vellum, hand bound at Gray Parrot's bindery. Issued with the portfolio (quarter vellum and tan cloth) in quarter vellum and tan cloth case.
- Contents
- Baby tortoise -- Tortoise shell -- Tortoise family connections -- Lui et Elle -- Tortoise gallantry -- Tortoise shout.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 1983 92-70
- OCLC
- 10498228
- NYPG92-B19262
- Author
- Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
- Title
- Tortoises : six poems / by D.H. Lawrence ; illustrated with wood engravings by Alan James Robinson ; with an introduction by Jefferson Hunter.
- Imprint
- Williamsburg, Mass. : Cheloniidae Press, 1983.
- Local Note
- Accompanied by a portfolio containing: suite of the 8 prints, each numbered "IX/X" and signed in pencil; 2 "state proof[s]" of each print (the 2 blocks comprising "Tortoise shell" ill. here printed on separate sheets) and 2 "rejected print[s]," each labled and signed in pencil; and 3 original pencil drawings. The etchings are on cream Fabriano, the wood engravings on unwatermarked white wove paper (1st state) and cream Curtis Rag, the drawings on tracing paper and Curtis Rag. Laid in: Letter, Nov. 1983, from the artist to J.T. Rankin, curator of the Spencer Collection, identifying the drawings as "initial sketches" rather than the "re-drawings" included with the other 9 portfolios.2 copies of the prospectus are laid in, one with the ill. signed in pencil.
- Added Author
- Robinson, Alan James.Parrot, Gray. Binder
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 1983 92-70