Bibliographic Essay
Eleanor Yarboro Prof. Suzanne Churchill ENG 393: Word-Art Bibliographic Essay February 8th, 2016 Metadata Margaret Atwood’s Snake Poems is a slim, unassuming volume in Davidson College Library’s Rare Book Room collection. At first glance, one would not think that it was published in 1983, in Toronto, and is now over thirty years old. A closer look at the wrinkled dark green cover… Read More
North American bear
North American Bear by Charles Wright Woodcut illustrations by Gary Young Sutton Hoo Press 1999 Physical Components 26cm tall. Decaled edges on half the pages. There are no page numbers. 30 pages. The book has 4 gatherings. It is bound with a hand-sewn string binding and a navy blue cloth with cream paper. The spine label is printed in black. All of the printing in the book is in the… Read More
“Now We Are Six” by A. A. Milne with Illustrations by Ernest Shepard
Title: Now We Are Six Author: A.A. Milne Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard Publisher and Date: London: Methuen 1927 (Norwich: Jarrold and Sons, Ltd.) Edition: First Physical Description: Now We Are Six has a dark maroon cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and top edges. The front cover has a gilt stamped design, which depicts Christopher Robin at play. The back cover is bare except for a small gilt stamped drawing in… Read More
“The Happy Prince” – Oscar Wilde
Illustrator: W.J. Goodacre Publisher: Trovillion Private Press Place: Herrin, Illinois Year: 1940 Edition: 2nd Copy: 241/277 *Picture on the left is from the original publication of “The Happy Prince and other Tales” with illustrations by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood. The picture on the right is from the Trovillion Private Press publication with illustrations by William J. Goodacre. “The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running… Read More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Cordelia Wilks Book: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Author: J.M. Barrie Illustrator: Arthur Rackham First Edition Published: 1906 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton London Current Worth: $1500 Edition: First edition, available in Great Britain and the British colonies and dependencies, only EXTERIOR Binding: Red cloth binding with gilt spine and front cover design, brown stain on outsides of pages Quarto Front Cover: Gilt inscription with illustration of young boy riding atop a… Read More
No Harm Done, Gary Young and Prose-Poetry
Book Title: No Harm Done Author: Gary Young Artist: Gary Young Publisher: Sutton Hoo Press in Winona, Minnesota Date of publication: May 31, 2004 Edition: First edition Physical description: No Harm Done is a small hard cover book that is 8 7/8 inches by 7 7/8 inches. It has 45 deckled pages that contain twelve images that are about 23 centimeters as well as fifteen poems. The 45 pages are made of… Read More
Bibliographic Essay: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Lenore” Illustrated by Hy. Sandham
DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK Binding: Faux crocodile skin over paper boards. Title: Gilt on navy ribbon woven through the front cover diagonally. Back strip defective and front cover completely detached from the rest of the book.: Printed on clay-based paper. Preliminary Pages: Half-Title: Photo-reprographic of an engraving of sobbing women leaning against a tombstone carved with “LENORE” with Hy. Sandham’s illustrator mark in the lower right-hand corner. Title: “LENORE”. Author: Edgar Allan… Read More
3 Layered Bibliography: An Incarnation of the Now
An Incarnation of the Now An Erasure Book by Mary Ruefle History of the book (1908-2015): The first component of the book was the physical book An Incarnation of the Snow by F.W. Bain. This was published in 1908. Somewhere during the next millennium, this book fell into the hands of Ruefle who created a new literary work by erasing most of Bain’s text while keeping some of the words on the… Read More
Bibliographic Essay: Farrant and the Ancient Mariner
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Samuel Taylor Coleridge Illustrated by Alan Andrew Farrant Stukeley Press: London, 1994 First published in 1789, in Lyrical Ballads Eleventh of fifty editions printed Physical Description Vellin Blanc paper Text paper: 200 grams per square meter with sharp edges. Print paper: 270 grams per square meter with four deckled, or seemingly worn, edges Pages: 46 by 31.4 centimeters, plates: 31.4 by 15.4 centimeters The pages are held… Read More
A Brief History of A Brief History of Punctuation
Title: A Brief History of Punctuation Author: Maurya Simon Illustrator: Cheryl Jacobsen Publisher: Sutton Hoo Press. Winona, Minnesota Date of publication: 2002 Price: Sutton Hoo Press’s website lists the price of each copy of Punctuation at $320, but notes elsewhere that it is “only available in sets” for $850. A leather-bound edition is available for $1250. Physical description: The book is a large-format artist book (8.5” x 14.5”), and 136 copies… Read More