Research Catalog

Title

Poems and a memoir / Seamus Heaney ; selected and illustrated by Henry Pearson ; with an introduction by Thomas Flanagan and a preface by Seamus Heaney.

Author

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.

Publication

New York : The Limited Editions Club, c1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pearson, Henry.
• Flanagan, Thomas, 1923-
• Anderson, John, 1915-
• Keleher, Daniel.
• Limited Editions Club.
• Robert Burlen & Son. bnd

Description

xviii, 153 p. : ill.; 31 cm.

Alternative Title

Monthly letter of the Limited Editions Club no. 530 (Nov. 1982).

Genre/Form

• Limitation statements (Publishing).
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Linotype Janson.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Post Title Medium.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Hammer American Uncial.
• Authors' autographs (Provenance).

Note

• "2,000 copies ... have been printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club."--Colophon.
• "The typographic design is by John Anderson of The Pickering Press. The composition in Linotype Janson with hand-set Post Title Medium and Hammer American Uncial has been performed by Finn Typographic. Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress has printed the illustrations and the text on one hundred pound letterpress paper with a laid finish made by Mohawk Mills and used in this book for the first time. The original relief engravings are by Henry Pearson. The book has been bound by Robert Burlen & Son."--Colophon.
• Illustrations: Relief engravings printed in brown, "adapted from prehistoric carvings found ... in the Boyne Valley, County Meath"--Artist's note, p. 153.
• Bound in brown aniline leather with gold titling on spine and blind-stamping of an engraving by Pearson on front cover; issued in slipcase.

Provenance (note)

• Berg Coll. copy 1 inscribed by Heaney to John Scanlon, "2 May 1993", along with a selection from a poem.

Call Number

*KP+ (Limited) 85-178

OCLC

• 9139833
• NYPG85-B48127

Author

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.

Title

Poems and a memoir / Seamus Heaney ; selected and illustrated by Henry Pearson ; with an introduction by Thomas Flanagan and a preface by Seamus Heaney.

Imprint

New York : The Limited Editions Club, c1982.

Edition

1st ed.

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy 1 inscribed by Heaney to John Scanlon, "2 May 1993", along with a selection from a poem.

Local Note

*KP copy is no. 898; signed by Heaney, Pearson, and Flanagan.

Berg Coll. copy 1 is no. 1780; signed by Heaney, Pearson, and Flanagan.

Berg Coll. copy 2 is no. 1798; signed by Heaney, Pearson, and Flanagan.

Berg Coll. copy 3 is no. 1855; signed by Heaney, Pearson, and Flanagan.

Berg Coll. copy 1 contains note to Scanlon on separate sheet--laid in.

Berg Coll. copies 2 and 3 contain the Monthly letter of The Limited Editions Club, no. 530 (Nov. 1982); and publisher's notice regarding the leather used for the binding--laid in.

Berg Coll. copy 3: Gift of John and Julienne Scanlon, Dec. 21, 2000.

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Added Author

Pearson, Henry.

Flanagan, Thomas, 1923-

Anderson, John, 1915- Typographer

Keleher, Daniel. Printer

Limited Editions Club.

Robert Burlen & Son. Binder

Scanlon, John, 1935- Former owner. Donor

Scanlon, Julienne. Former owner. Donor

Added Title

Monthly letter of the Limited Editions Club no. 530 (Nov. 1982).

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Limited) 85-178

Berg Coll+ Heaney P66 1982