It’s Fine Press Friday!This week present Epitaph by Theodore Dreiser and illustrated with woodcuts b
It’s Fine Press Friday!This week present Epitaph by Theodore Dreiser and illustrated with woodcuts by English artist Robert Fawcett. It was published by Heron Press in New York in 1929 and printed at the press of August Gauthier in an edition of 1100 numbered copies signed by Dreiser and Fawcett. Printed on Keijyo Kami paper and bound in Japanese silk, this unusual book is set in Nicholas Cochin font on this translucent, wafer-thin paper. Small black-and-white images are interspersed with poetry about lost love in a heart-wrenching cry into the void. The impact is enhanced by the physicality of the book, especially through the presence of translucent paper with spidery, deckled edges, flecked with inclusions, that could conceivably have been found in nature rather than handmade. Keijyo Kami is a handmade washi paper created by a special papermaking technique, nagashizuki, a process unique to Japan. The black hardcover with silver embossing gives no hints about the book’s achingly ethereal content. View more Fine Press Friday posts.-Emily, Special Collections Writing Intern -- source link
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