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Blind date

Title: Blind date / with etchings and embossed prints designed by John Furnival and text written by Thomas Meyer.
Author: Furnival, John.
Publication: Guildford, Surrey, England : Circle Press Publications, 1979.

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Description

20 sheets (10 folded) ([5], 50, [1] p.) : ill.; 31 cm.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bodoni.

Note

Consists of 10 bifolia with text on recto and verso of first leaf, each containing a print. Paging begins with 2nd bifolium and includes the prints and blank second leaves of the bifolia (except last print and last blank leaf).
Colophon on p. [3] of paper covers.
Illustrations: 10 prints : etching, b&w, blind embossing ; full-page. Numbered consecutively (I-X) and initialed in pencil. "Processed by Jack Shirreff and printed by himself and Michael Ward at 107 Workshop, Chapmanslade"--Colophon. Subject: Etched vignettes illustrating the legends of Theseus and the Minotaur and Hercules and Omphale, each surrounded by a blind-embossed maze.
Issued unbound, in paper covers, in gray cloth portfolio and black cloth slipcase with blind-embossed maze, "designed and constructed by the Dorset Bookbinding Company, Wimbourne"--Colophon.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1979 92-394

OCLC

7003833
NYPG92-B73029

Author

Furnival, John.

Title

Blind date / with etchings and embossed prints designed by John Furnival and text written by Thomas Meyer.

Imprint

Guildford, Surrey, England : Circle Press Publications, 1979.

Local Note

345 copies printed at Circle Press on Somerset rag-made paper from Bodoni type in "a limited edition of 300 books plus 30 copies marked Artist's Proof, five copies marked H.C. and ten copies held for presentation by the publisher"--P. [1] (1st group). No. "C.P. 7"; signed by the artist in pencil.

Spencer Coll. copy contains in addition: 1 print : relief process, hand col. ; 31 x 26 cm. Signed in pencil and inscribed: "Omphale goes out walking."

Added Author

Meyer, Thomas, 1947-

Shirreff, Jack, printer of plates.

Ward, Michael, printer of plates.

Circle Press. Printer

Dorset Bookbinding Co. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1979 92-394

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