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The bending of the bow : a version of the closing books of Homer's Odyssey

Title: The bending of the bow : a version of the closing books of Homer's Odyssey / Neil Curry ; with images by Jim Dine.
Author: Curry, Neil, 1937-
Publication: London : Enitharmon Press, 1993.

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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. Eng. 1993 94-148	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

63 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill.; 31 cm. +

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Baskerville.

Note

90 copies, of which 75 are numbered in arabic, were printed by Gloucester Typesetting Services, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, on Canaletto paper from Baskerville type.
Issued also in a trade edition.
Illustrations: 4 photomechanical prints : photogravure, black and beige ; full-page (plate mark 17 x 13 cm. or smaller). Printed by Simon Marsh at Hope Sufferance Press, London. -- 1 photomechanical print : offset lithograph, b&w ; full-page. Printed by Mike Taylor at the Pauper's Press, London. These 5 prints reproduce drawings from the artist's "Glyptothek" series of 1987-1988; cf. Jim Dine : drawing from the Glyptothek. 1993. p. 40, 43, 58, 61, 63.
Binding: Publisher's quarter hunter green cloth and beige linen, by the Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Issued with the etching in hunter green cloth slipcase.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1993 94-148

ISBN

1870612094 (deluxe ed)
1870612043 (pbk)

LCCN

gb 93067131

OCLC

32119267
NYPG94-B18593

Author

Curry, Neil, 1937-

Title

The bending of the bow : a version of the closing books of Homer's Odyssey / Neil Curry ; with images by Jim Dine.

Imprint

London : Enitharmon Press, 1993.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 38; signed by the poet.

Local Note

Accompanying print (plate mark 20 x 15 cm.) printed by Julia D'Amario and Bill Hall at the Spring Street Workshop, New York, on Hahnemühle paper. Numbered 38/75, dated 1992 and signed in pencil. Subject: Head of Homer.

Added Author

Homer. Odyssey.

Dine, Jim, 1935-

Enitharmon Press. Publisher

Spring Street Workshop, printer of plates.

Fine Bindery (Wellingborough, England) Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1993 94-148

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