The Old Print Shop

The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf before the High Court of Vendome.

  • ARTIST: Thomas Cornell

  • PUBLISHER: Gehenna Press, Northampton,

  • MEDIUM:

    DATE: 1964

  • EDITION SIZE:

  • DESCRIPTION: Edited & translated with an essay on Babeuf by John Anthony Scott, with 21 etched portraits by Thomas Cornell. Loose as issued in unbound and uncut signatures, in full leather portfolio, limited to 300 copies, with and additional suite of etchings signed and numbered, in cloth portfolio, limited to an edition of 50. Sets 1 through 50 have the additional suite of prints all signed, titled and dated in pencil. This is set 34 identified on the colophon page and the additional suite of prints all numbered 34/50. <BR><BR> Quarto loose uncut signatures in a leather cover housed in a beige portfolio. The etchings in the text are printed on blue Fabriano laid paper, and laid into the text. The additional suite of prints is quarto in a separate matching beige portfolio. <BR><BR> From the colophon: <BR> “Three hundred copies of this book were printed at the Gehenna Press in Northhampton, Mass., the work finished during March 1964. The type throughout is Baskerville, The paper is Nideggen made in Germany. Harold McGrath was the pressman. The suite of etchings were printed by Emiliano Sorini in New York. . .” <BR><BR>

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Very good condition, slight wear on corners of case.

  • REFERENCE: Brook 36.