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Tempest of stars : selected poems
- Title
- Tempest of stars : selected poems / Jean Cocteau ; translated by Jeremy Reed ; with drawings by David Austen.
- Author
- Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
- Publication
- London : Enitharmon Press, 1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. 1992 94-146 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 55 sheets (28 folded) ([1], 135, [1] p.) : ill.; 22 cm. +
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Typefaces (Type evidence) – Garamond.
- Note
- Added t.p. (reproduced from handwriting) has title: Poems.
- Issued also in a trade edition.
- Consists of 28 bifolia with text and 27 loose sheets with the ill.; latter are counted in paging as 1 p. each. Blank leaf at end, not counted in collation.
- Issued unbound, in pale yellow linen solander case by the Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
- Language (note)
- French and English on opposite pages.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Eng. 1992 94-146
- ISBN
- 1870612175 (deluxe ed)
- 1870612124 (pbk)
- LCCN
- 92213956
- OCLC
- 26803339
- NYPG94-B18504
- Author
- Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
- Title
- Tempest of stars : selected poems / Jean Cocteau ; translated by Jeremy Reed ; with drawings by David Austen.
- Imprint
- London : Enitharmon Press, 1992.
- Language
- French and English on opposite pages.
- Local Note
- 85 copies printed by Gloucester Typesetting Services, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, on Canaletto paper from Garamond type. Issued in 5 editions marked A to E, each consisting of 17 copies accompanied by one of 5 original prints, of which 15 arabic numbered copies were offered for sale. Edition A, no. 10/15; signed by the translator and, in pencil, by the artist.Illustrations: 27 photomechanical prints : offset lithography, orange brown, gold, coral pink or royal blue ; full-page. Included added t.p. Printed on Langham paper by Expression Printers Ltd, London.Spencer Coll. copy incomplete: 2 ill. wanting (p. 115-116).Accompanying print (plate mark 18 x 13 cm.) printed by Colin Gale at the London Print Workshop on Somerset paper. The Edition A print, "Ladder" (cf. colophon); numbered 10/15 and signed in pencil.
- Added Author
- Reed, Jeremy.Austen, David.Enitharmon Press. PublisherLondon Print Workshop, printer of plates.Fine Bindery (Wellingborough, England) Binder
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Eng. 1992 94-146