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An African folktale

Title: An African folktale / [with blind intaglio & screen prints by Willow Legge]
Publication: [Guildford, Surrey] England : Circle Press Publications, 1979.

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Request Appointment 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. Eng. 1979 93-454	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

9 folded sheets ([7], 25, [2] p.) : ill. (some col.); 38 cm. +

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Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Baskerville.
Inkless intaglio prints.

Note

"An Efik-Ibibio folktale from Southern Nigeria recounting why the sun and the moon live in the sky"--Circle Press checklist.
Illustrations: 7 prints : blind intaglio ; double-page (1), full-page (2) or smaller. Subject: Marine life. -- 7 prints : screenprint, monochrome (4), col. (3); full-page (4) or smaller. -- 2 prints : blind intaglio, screenprint, monochrome ; double-page (1), full-page (1).
Issued unbound, in beige cloth solander case with ill. stamped in gray on front, by Dorset Bookbinding.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1979 93-454

LCCN

83460067

OCLC

9283079
NYPG93-B73882

Title

An African folktale / [with blind intaglio & screen prints by Willow Legge]

Imprint

[Guildford, Surrey] England : Circle Press Publications, 1979.

Local Note

215 copies and 30 artist's proofs printed on Somerset rag-made paper from Baskerville type; cf. colophon. According to Circle Press checklist, 1991, there were 200 copies and 45 proofs. No. A.P. 15; signed in pencil by the artist.

Accompanying print numbered A.P. 15 and signed in pencil.

Added Author

Legge, Willow.

Circle Press. Printer

Dorset Bookbinding Co. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1979 93-454

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