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Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes

Title: Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes / Billy Collins ; images by Charles Hobson.
Author: Collins, Billy
Publication: [San Francisco] : Pacific Editions, 2002.
Supplementary Content: Artist's description

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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. Amer. 2002 09-238	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

[7] p. : 2 ill. (1 col.); 21 cm.

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"Produced in a limited edition of thirty copies in the summer and fall of 2002 by Charles Hobson. It uses buttons, ribbons, feathers, and a pastel monotype based on a photograph taken by Edgar Degas in Paris in 1895, which evokes, for the artist, a sense of clothing as plumage. Charles Hobson and Alice Shaw assembled the pages and made the slipcase. John Demerritt covered the boards in Fabriano Roma. The text has been set in 14-point Spectrum and printed letterpress by M & H Type, San Francisco."--Colophon.
Incorporates Dickinson's poem, "Hope is the thing with feathers," on sheet 45 x 55 mm., mounted on p. [6]; ill. of a feather on attached cover sheet.
Printed on both sides of a strip formed from 3 joined sheets folded accordion-style and attached to back board. Title page only on recto of strip; p. [2-7] on verso. Text also on paper slip attached to thread securing button to p. [3].
The full-page col. monotype, mounted on on p. [4], is concealed until ribbons and a pearl button are unfastened.

Binding (note)

Publisher's green Fabriano Roma paper boards; garter used as closure. Issued in corrugated paper slipcase with ribbon tie.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2002 09-238

OCLC

50879762

Author

Collins, Billy.

Title

Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes / Billy Collins ; images by Charles Hobson.

Imprint

[San Francisco] : Pacific Editions, 2002.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 17/30; signed in pencil by the artist.

Binding

Publisher's green Fabriano Roma paper boards; garter used as closure. Issued in corrugated paper slipcase with ribbon tie.

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Artist's description

Place of Publication

United States California San Francisco.

Added Author

Hobson, Charles, 1943- Illustrator

Shaw, Alice.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems (Todd)

Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.

Pacific Editions. Publisher

M & H Type (Firm) Printer

DeMerritt, John. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2002 09-238