Four portrait busts

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Description

Title
Four portrait busts
Creator
Laurana, Francesco, approximately 1420-1502, artist
Contributor
Kennedy, Clarence, photographer.
Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood, 1896-1968, writer of supplementary textual content.
McGrath, Harold, printer.
Gehenna Press, printer.
Meriden Gravure Company, printer of plates.
Carta di Amalfi, papermaker.
Tovil Paper Mills, papermaker.
Wyatt, Leo, 1909-1981, bookplate designer.
Published / Created
MCMLXII [1962]
Publication Place
Northampton, Massachusetts and United States Massachusetts Northampton
Publisher
Gehenna Press
Description
SML Presses NJ18 L375 K45 1962 (LC): Inscribed to Harold Hugo from Leonard Baskin. No. VI. Prospectus with extra plate laid in. Bound in 1/2 oasis niger.
BEIN 1994 +51: Inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg from Leonard Baskin. Printer's copy.
BEIN Meriden Gravure 670: Bookplate of Harold Hugo, designed by Leo Wyatt. From the collection of the Meriden-Stinehour Press. Accompanied by prospectus with extra plate.
BEIN X178 G26 Z962K: Number 376.
"Five hundred copies of this first volume in the Gehenna Essays in Art have been printed at the Gehenna Press in Northampton, Massachusetts. The pressman was Harold McGrath. The plates have been printed at the Meriden Gravure Co., in Meriden, Connecticut. The text has been set in monotype Centaur and Arrighi types and printed on Amalfi, a handmade Italian paper; the plates on Tovil handmade in England. Fifty copies have been specially bound at the Harcourt Bindery in one-half oasis niger and are lettered I-L"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).
Extent
37 unnumbered pages, 12 leaves of plates : 26 cm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
X178 G26 Z962K

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Biography
Biographies
Typefaces (Type evidence) Centaur (Monotype)
Typefaces (Type evidence) Arrighi
Material
illustrations ;
Resource Type
text and still image
Subject (Geographic)
Italy
Italy.
Subject (Name)
Laurana, Francesco, approximately 1420-1502.
Subject (Topic)
Sculptors
Busts, Renaissance
Subjects
Laurana, Francesco, approximately 1420-1502
Sculptors > Italy > Biography
Busts, Renaissance > Italy
Busts, Renaissance
Sculptors
Italy
Centaur (Monotype)
Arrighi
Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901- > Presentation inscription from L. Baskin
Baskin, Leonard, 1922- > Presentation inscription to F. Eichenberg
Hugo, Harold > Bookplate
Meriden-Stinehour Press > Ownership

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
760569
Object ID (OID)
16584347

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