Research Catalog

Title

Precessional / poems by Eleanor Wilner ; lithographs by Enid Mark.

Author

Wilner, Eleanor.

Publication

Wallingford, Pa. : ELM Press, 1998.

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mark, Enid.
• Sheesley, Timothy P.
• Schwable, Conrad.
• Bixler, Michael.
• Bixler, Winifred.
• Keleher, Daniel.
• Creighton, Sarah.
• ELM Press. pbl
• Corridor Press. pop
• Wild Carrot Letterpress. prt

Description

[31] p. : col. ill.; 35 cm.

Subject

• Mark, Enid
• Mythology, Greek > Poetry
• Nature > Poetry
• Nature in art

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States.

Note

• "Forty-five numbered copies of this book, ten artist's proofs and six poet's copies numbered I-VI, were printed"--Colophon.
• "The lithographs were hand pulled by Timothy P. Sheesley and Conrad Schwable at Corridor Press, Otego, New York. The type, Monotype Garamond, was cast at the Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York, and printed by Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Massachusetts. The paper is Arches Velin. Handbound by Sarah Creighton, Easthampton, Massachusetts.
• Leaves glued together at fore-edges to form double leaves. Two poems on folded leaves.
• Illustrations: 9 prints : lithograph, col. ; image 35 x 37 cm. Based on photographic images of water, wood, trees, grasses and stars; printed in shades of black, blue, ochre, purple and grays.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's midnight blue Japanese cloth; title stamped in silver on irridescent blue paper labels. Endpapers contain additional lithographs depicting star fields.

Contents

What Narcissus gave the lake -- Attic light -- Distances -- Winter conception -- Nebraska hymn to Demeter -- The daughters of Midas -- A short poem about the cosmos -- Sidereal desire -- Moon gathering -- Precessional explained.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1998 10-103

LCCN

2001560746

OCLC

46882644

Author

Wilner, Eleanor.

Title

Precessional / poems by Eleanor Wilner ; lithographs by Enid Mark.

Imprint

Wallingford, Pa. : ELM Press, 1998.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 10; signed in pencil by the poet and the artist.

Binding

Publisher's midnight blue Japanese cloth; title stamped in silver on irridescent blue paper labels. Endpapers contain additional lithographs depicting star fields.

Local Note

Accompanied by prospectus ([1] leaf).

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Wallingford.

Added Author

Mark, Enid. Lithographer

ELM Press. Publisher

Sheesley, Timothy P. Printer of plates

Schwable, Conrad. Printer of plates

Corridor Press. Printer of plates

Bixler, Michael. Compositor

Bixler, Winifred. Compositor

Keleher, Daniel. Printer

Wild Carrot Letterpress. Printer

Creighton, Sarah. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1998 10-103