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Trees

Title: Trees / W.S. Merwin ; images and visual design, Charles Hobson.
Author: Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.
Publication: [San Francisco, Calif.] : Pacific Editions, 2010.
Supplementary Content: Publisher'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. 2010 10-272	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

1 box : col. ill.; 31 x 11 x 5 cm.

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Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
Digital prints.
Bookbinding (Binding) – Wooden cases.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Poppl-Laudatio.

Note

"Limited edition of thirty copies"--Colophon.
Merwin's poem and the colophon are printed on one side of a strip constructed from 3 sheets of foamcore and 9 sheets of stiff paper (Strathmore museum board), joined end to end and folded accordion-style; the foamcore sheets have cutouts, two of which contain painted metal model palm trees, while the cutout on the third reveals a digital print on a sheet of transparent film, mounted on the verso. Three other digital prints on sheets of transparent film are inserted between folds of the paper portion of the strip; one digital print on paper is mounted on verso of the first paper sheet and is partly visible through the cutout in the first foamcore sheet. In addition, box contains sheet with title page and a loose digital print on paper, signed in pencil by Hobson; an instruction sheet, titled "Ways to read Trees," is laid on box lid, and an illustrated slip, titled "Instruction on first reading," wraps around box lid.
"The impetus to use palm trees as a visual accompaniment to the poem came from the return address in Hawaii on a letter from W.S. Merwin giving his permission. The images of palm trees have been made as monotypes which have been reproduced as high-resolution digital prints on transparent film. They are hinged between pages of Strathmore 2-ply museum board and acid free foamcore with architectural model trees. The windows in the foamcore were cut at Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California. The wooden boxes were acquired over a period of fifteen years with the hope they would someday be useful in a book design with a strong vertical motif. The text pages were printed letterpress at JR Press, San Francisco, and the title on the side of the box was foil-stamped by John DeMerritt, Emeryville, California. The typeface is Poppl-Laudatio. Charles Hobson made the monotypes and designed and assembled the edition with the assitance of Alice Shaw"--Colophon.
"'Trees' ... [was] originally published in The compass flower by W.S. Merwin, currently collected in Flower & hand by W.S. Merwin. Copyright 1977"--Colophon.

Binding (note)

Issued in wooden box with sliding lid; digital print mounted on box lid; box is wrapped in brown corrugated cardboard and secured with a green cord; small flashlight for enhanced viewing of images is attached to the cord.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 10-272

OCLC

653247537

Author

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.

Title

Trees / W.S. Merwin ; images and visual design, Charles Hobson.

Imprint

[San Francisco, Calif.] : Pacific Editions, 2010.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 7/30; signed in pencil by Merwin and Hobson.

Binding

Issued in wooden box with sliding lid; digital print mounted on box lid; box is wrapped in brown corrugated cardboard and secured with a green cord; small flashlight for enhanced viewing of images is attached to the cord.

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States California San Francisco.

Added Author

Hobson, Charles, 1943- Illustrator

Shaw, Alice.

Pacific Editions. Publisher

Magnolia Editions.

JR Press. Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 10-272

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