Research Catalog

Title

Cetacea, the great whales : etchings and wood engravings / by Alan James Robinson.

Author

Robinson, Alan James.

Publication

[Williamsburg, Mass. : Cheloniidae Press, 1982]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bourbeau, David.
• Parrot, Gray.
• Hampshire Typothetae. prt
• Cheloniidae Press. pbl

Description

11 sheets, 7 prints : ill. ; 41 x 59 cm. +

Subject

• Whales
• Whales in art

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Garamond.

Note

• Place and date of publication from Cheloniidae Press list, 1986. Prospectus gives place of publication as Easthampton, Mass.
• Issued unbound, in a black oasis niger and black cloth portfolio, by David Bourbeau of Thistle Bindery; the leather covering front board is molded over a bas relief sculpture of a whale's head, by Alan James Robinson. Endleaves (2 sheets) of Tomoe Blue wave pattern decorative paper, one with blind embossed device of the Press.
• Accompanied by suite of the etchings (20 prints). Each print inscribed with a legend and the state and signed and dated in pencil; contains first and second state of the first etching and first to third states of each of the others. Issued in a quarter black oasis niger and black cloth portfolio with black leather label, which reads: Cetacea : state proofs.
• The 2 portfolios are contained in a quarter black oasis niger solander case, by Gray Parrot.

Indexed In (note)

• Books as art

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1982 93-511

OCLC

NYPG94-B13

Author

Robinson, Alan James.

Title

Cetacea, the great whales : etchings and wood engravings / by Alan James Robinson.

Imprint

[Williamsburg, Mass. : Cheloniidae Press, 1982]

Indexed In:

Books as art, 88

Local Note

110 copies printed in black and red at Hampshire Typothetae, Hatfield, Mass., on Arches Cover Buff paper from Garamond type, "with 10 copies withheld as artist's proofs"--Colophon. Spencer Coll. copy designated "Suite E"; signed in pencil by the artist, the binders (David Bourbeau and Gray Parrot) and the printer, H.P. McGrath.

Illustrations: 7 prints : etching, soft ground etching, drypoint, aquatint ; full-page. Printed by the artist at Cheloniidae Press. Each inscribed with a legend, designated "Suite E," signed and dated '81 in pencil. -- 2 prints : wood engraving, b&w ; image 12 x 93 cm., 13 x 19 cm. On t.p. and in colophon, respectively. Printed at Hampshire Typothetae. -- There are also 7 blind embossed reproductions of drawings of whales and 12 species range maps.

Added Author

Bourbeau, David. Binder

Parrot, Gray. Binder

Hampshire Typothetae. Printer

Cheloniidae Press. Publisher

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1982 93-511