[Place of publication not identified] : Linda L. Broadfoot, 2014
Physical Details
1 box : illustrations ; 17 x 24 x 16 cm
OCLC
ocn982957936
Poems reprinted from "The Bees: Poems" by Carol Ann Duffy, with permission of Faber and Faber, Inc.
"Hive was produced over the course of two years and contains nine poems from The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy ... The text is overprinted witih a transparent honeycomb pattern. ... The eight accompanying images of bees in flight are archival photographic pigment prints ... The poems and images are mounted on ten Russian birch plywood 'pages, ' their fore-edges coated with beeswax, and encased within a fabricated one-half scale maple Langstroth beehive box structure designed by the artist and constructed by master carpenter Robert Lacombe. ..."--Prospectus.
"Hive was letterpress printed ... with type cast and set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Linda L. Broadfoot created the images and hand-printed the text. ... The book was printed in an edition of 30 ..."--Colophon.