Research Catalog

Title

The disconnected sodality / woodcuts & lithography & words by Leonard Baskin.

Author

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000.

Publication

[Rockport, Me.] : Gehenna Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Larson, Arthur, printer.
• Fox, Herb.
• Sheesley, Timothy P.
• Gehnrich, Daniel.
• Baskin, Lisa Unger.
• Gehenna Press. prt
• Golgonooza Letter Foundry. cmt

Description

[65] leaves: ports. (some col., some mounted); 33 cm.

Subjects

• Authors, European > Portraits
• Gifted persons > Europe > Biography
• Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000
• Authors, European > Biography
• Artists' books > United States > 21st century
• Artists > Europe > Biography
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Spectrum
• Gifted persons > Europe > Portraits
• Artists > Europe > Portraits

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Spectrum.

Note

• "Thirty copies ... were printed at the Gehenna Press ... Copies 1-8 have a second suite of the plates, one of the woodblocks, a touched proof & a preparatory drawing by Leonard Baskin; copies 9-30 constitute the regular edition. Several copies printed for the book's collaborators are hors d'commerce"--Colophon.
• Place of publication from prospectus.
• "The letterpress has been achieved by Arthur Larson of Hadley, Massachusetts ... All impressions are printed from the stones, lithographic plates & woodblocks on various European & Japanese handmade papers. The type is Jan van Krimpen's Spectrum, cast by Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Daniel Gehnrich has bound the entire edition"--Colophon.
• Illustrations : 24 prints : lithograph, some col. ; full-page. Printed by Herb Fox, Merrimac, Mass., and Timothy Sheesley, Corridor Press, Otego, N.Y. -- 18 prints : woodcut ; full page. Printed by Arthur Larson, Horton Tank Graphics, Hadley, Mass.
• Some letterpress printed on both sides of leaf.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's quarter blue morocco with blue morocco fore-edges and hand-decorated blue paste paper boards. Issued in gray cloth clamshell box with morocco spine label.

Contents

Mary Shelley -- Jules Dalou -- Alexandre Charpentier -- Jacques Offenbach -- Georg Minne -- Franz Xavier Messerschmidt -- David D'Angers -- Caspar David Friedrich -- Helen Maria Williams -- Wilhelm Leibl -- Dantan Le Jeune -- Lovis Corinth -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Franz Schubert -- Constantine Meunier -- Alfred Gilbert -- Christen Købke -- E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Philipp Otto Runge -- Georg Büchner.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2005 10-72

OCLC

68905971

Author

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000.

Title

The disconnected sodality / woodcuts & lithography & words by Leonard Baskin.

Imprint

[Rockport, Me.] : Gehenna Press, 2005.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 17/30; signed in pencil by Lisa Unger Baskin.

Binding

Publisher's quarter blue morocco with blue morocco fore-edges and hand-decorated blue paste paper boards. Issued in gray cloth clamshell box with morocco spine label.

Local Note

Accompanied by prospectus ([4] p.).

Place of Publication

United States Maine Rockport.

United States Massachusetts Hadley.

Added Author

Gehenna Press. Printer

Larson, Arthur, printer. Printer

Fox, Herb. Printer of plates

Sheesley, Timothy P. Printer of plates

Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Compositor

Gehnrich, Daniel. Binder

Baskin, Lisa Unger. Signer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2005 10-72