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Salt notes

Title: Salt notes / James Brown.
Author: Brown, James, 1951-
Publication: [San Francisco] : Limestone Press, c1990.

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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. 1990 94-36	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

[21] leaves : all ill.; 25 cm.

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Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Caslon.
Artists' books – United States.

Note

Letterpress t.p. (on translucent sheet) and colophon printed from Caslon type.
Leaves 4-5, 7, 9-10 and 12-14 illustrated on both sides.
Blank leaf, not counted in collation, precedes colophon.
Illustrated throughout. "Printed from eight copper etching plates and fourteen lithograph stones drawn by the artist ... in November and December 1989. Additionally, each book contains three pages hand-drawn by the artist ... Printed by Jill Livermore, assisted by Karen Tossavainen and Richard Urban"--Colophon. Some images produced by imprinting etching plates with potatoes soaked in sugarlift, nitric acid or tusche. Several prints combine etching and lithography by superimposition and/or montage. Colors: black, magenta, umber, off-white; several mounted, some on light blue or black paper. For detailed discussion, see Print collector's newsletter, v. 21, no. 5 (Nov./Dec. 1990), p. 191.
Binding: Publisher's half magenta morocco and illustrated white paper boards, by Klaus Rötzscher. In natural linen slipcase with additional print inset on front.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1990 94-36

OCLC

NYPG94-B6408

Author

Brown, James, 1951-

Title

Salt notes / James Brown.

Imprint

[San Francisco] : Limestone Press, c1990.

Local Note

No. 14 of 50 copies printed and drawn on Whatman wove and laid paper (hand-made in 1954, 1957, 1960, and 1962) and Rives BFK paper; signed in pencil by the artist.

Added Author

Rötzscher, Klaus-Ullrich S. Binder

Limestone Press. Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1990 94-36

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