Tortoises.

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• ARTIST: Alan James Robinson

• PUBLISHER: Cheloniidae Press, Williamsburg.

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  DATE: 1983.

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• DESCRIPTION: Six poems by D. H. Lawrence, illustrated with wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, with an introduction by Jefferson Hunter. Unpagenated, etched portrait frontispiece and 7 wood engravings, quarto (4to), hardcover 1/4 vellum over bds. with an extra set of the 8 prints in a linen folder, loose as issued, in 1/4 vellum clam shell box, part of deluxe edition of 10 AP copies numbered "Artist Proof 10.", all prints signed by Robinson as well as the colophon.<BR><BR> From colophon:<BR> "Tortoises was designed by Alan James Robinson and Arthur Larson. The tet was set by Winifred Bixler. Michael Bixler cast the Centaur and Lrrighi monotype. Additional hand composition was done by Arthur Larson at the Hampshire Typothetae, Three hundred copies were printed at the Typothetae by H. Patrick McGrath in the spring of 1983: two hundred on an obsolete, hotpressed Wookey Hole paper - T. Edmonds Creme laid; one hundred on Fabiano Perusia. All the books were hand-bound at the bindery of Gary Parrot. Ten copies were bound in full vellum, with the rest of the edition bound quarter-vellum. The introduction was written by Jefferson Hunter, Associate Proffessor of English at Smith College. the wood engravings were cut by Alan James Robinson at the Cheloniidae Press, Williamsburg, Massachusetts. . ."

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• CONDITION: Very good condition.

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• CATEGORIES: 20th-21st Century Subjects , Artists' Books & Portfolios