Research Catalog

Title

De Morandi / Ian Tyson ; Kevin Power.

Author

Tyson, Ian, 1933-2021.

Publication

Guildford, Surrey, England : Circle Press, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Power, Kevin.
• Circle Press. pbl
• Studio Prints, printer of plates.
• Dorset Bookbinding Co. bnd

Description

8 prints : aquatint, blind; 39 x 29 cm. +

Subjects

• Morandi, Giorgio, 1890-1964 > Poetry
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Optima
• Tyson, Ian, 1933-

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Optima.

Note

• "A collaboration between poet and artist based on a mutual interest in the still-life paintings of Morandi"--Circle Press checklist.
• Prints dated '79 and initialed in pencil.
• Additional print (aquatint, blind ; diam. plate mark 6 cm.) on p. [1] of text portion.
• Text portion (t.p., prose poems, colophon) consists of 8 bifolia in 4-leaf gatherings; blank leaf at beginning and end, not counted in collation.
• Issued unbound, in 2 black paper portfolios, in black cloth portfolio, stamped in silver on spine, and black cloth slipcase, by Dorset Bookbinding Co. Ltd., Wimborne, Dorset.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1979 93-456

OCLC

• 10034345
• NYPG93-B73740

Author

Tyson, Ian, 1933-2021.

Title

De Morandi / Ian Tyson ; Kevin Power.

Imprint

Guildford, Surrey, England : Circle Press, 1979.

Local Note

325 copies, of which 300 were offered for sale, and 30 artists' proofs printed by Studio Prints Ltd., London (prints) and Charles Mitchell Ltd, Woking, Surrey (text) on Somerset mould made paper from Optima type; cf. colophon. According to Circle Press checklist, 1991, there were 300 copies and 45 proofs. No. 249; signed in pencil by the artist, Ian Tyson, and the poet, Kevin Power.

Added Author

Power, Kevin.

Circle Press. Publisher

Studio Prints, printer of plates.

Dorset Bookbinding Co. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1979 93-456