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Oresteia

Title: Oresteia / Aeschylus ; a version by Ted Hughes ; woodcuts by Leonard Baskin.
Author: Aeschylus.
Publication: [Leeds, Mass.] : Gehenna Press, 2001 [i.e. 2002]

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Description

3 v. : ill., port.; 42 cm.

Uniform Title

Oresteia. English.

Alternative Title

Oresteia.

Subject

Genre/Form

Livres d'artistes – United States – 21st century.

Note

60 copies printed; signed by Lisa Unger Baskin and Carol Hughes. Copies numbered 1-10 are bound in full leather and have a second suite of woodcuts, a woodcut portrait of Ted Hughes, a preparatory drawing, a woodblock and a sheet of Hughes' working manuscript. Copies numbered 11-60 constitute the "regular edition."
"Printed at the Gehenna Press from early autumn of 2000 through the dry spring of 2002. The forty-seven woodcuts are printed from the original cherry blocks cut by Leonard Baskin. The paper is Zecchi, hand made in Italy. The types are Centaur & Arrighi, composed & cast by the Golgonooza Letter Foundry. The printing of the letterpress was achieved by Arthur Larson & Daniel Keleher of Hadley, Massachusetts"--Colophon.
Vol. 1: [5], 102 p.; v. 2: [5], 68, [1] p.; v. 3: [5], 61, [2] p.
Illustrations: 47 prints : woodcut, b&w ; full-page.
Binding: Publisher's quarter black morocco and red handmade paste paper boards, by Claudia Cohen. Edges trimmed in black morocco. Issued in gray cloth case with red paste paper strip on spine; "Aeschylus Oresteia" and "Hughes Baskin" in gold on two black morocco diamond-shaped appliqués on spine.

Contents

[1] Agamemnon -- [2] Choephori -- [3] The Eumenides.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2002 04-366

OCLC

Author

Aeschylus.

Title

Oresteia / Aeschylus ; a version by Ted Hughes ; woodcuts by Leonard Baskin.

Imprint

[Leeds, Mass.] : Gehenna Press, 2001 [i.e. 2002]

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 44.

Accompanied by 2 copies of prospectus ([4] p. : ill. ; 41 cm.).

Added Author

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000. Illustrator. Wood engraver

Larson, Arthur, printer. Printer

Keleher, Daniel. Printer

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- Binder

Baskin, Lisa Unger, signer.

Hughes, Carol, signer.

Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Compositor

Gehenna Press. Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2002 04-366