Research Catalog

Title

Artisans : a book of phantasies in monotype.

Author

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000.

Publication

[Rockport, Me.] : Gehenna Press, 1997.

Details

Additional Authors

• Kuch, Michael
• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Gehenna Press, printer.

Description

[24] leaves : all col. ill.; 33 cm.

Subject

• Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000
• Fictitious characters > Portraits
• Artisans > Portraits
• Artists' books

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States.
• Monotypes.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Cancelleresca Bastarda.
• Artists' books.

Note

• Title page, legends to the ill. and colophon printed from Cancelleresca Bastarda types by Arthur Larson.
• Illustrations: 24 prints : monotype, col. ; full-page. 18 on full-size sheets of off-white paper, 6 on smaller sheets of gray-green, green or gray paper. Printed by Michael Kuch.
• Binding: Publisher's gray morocco, gilt, with red and salmon inlays, by Claudia Cohen. Issued in a beige cloth solander case with gray morocco spine strip.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1997 00-2

LCCN

97192898

OCLC

138300052

Author

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000.

Title

Artisans : a book of phantasies in monotype.

Imprint

[Rockport, Me.] : Gehenna Press, 1997.

Local Note

16 copies printed. No. 7 of 10 numbered copies; signed in pencil by the artist. Six copies lettered a-f were reserved for the collaborators.

Each print numbered 7/10 and signed in pencil.

Added Author

Kuch, Michael, printer of plates.

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- binder.

Gehenna Press, printer.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1997 00-2