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Diptera : a book of flies & other insects
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The case contains 3 (regular edition) or 5 (deluxe edition) individual sewn gatherings of various handmade papers of various sizes. The first contains 8 unnumbered pages of letterpress, comprising ...
The case contains 3 (regular edition) or 5 (deluxe edition) individual sewn gatherings of various handmade papers of various sizes. The first contains 8 unnumbered pages of letterpress, comprising title page, introductory note by Yglesias and a list of subjects of the etchings; pages 2 and 8 are blank. The second and third contain the etchings, on respectively 18 and 16 unnumbered leaves, and are without textual content, except for an additional leaf with letterpress colophon and etched publisher's device at the end of the second. In the deluxe edition, a fourth and fifth gathering contain another impression of the etchings, with variants in color and on variant papers; without the colophon leaf.
The etchings vary in size, location on the page and shape of the plate mark. One of the illustrations, "Tachina grossa," is comprised of 3 separate impressions from the same plate (4 in the deluxe suite); "House fly," the final etching, is printed from a plate in the shape of a housefly. "Many of the etchings are printed in color, some in the French a la poupee manner, others are printed onto colored papers, employing the finesse of the Chine-colle process, & several have printed color overlays"--Prospectus.
Deluxe copies 1-5 contain, in addition, an original watercolor drawing by Baskin in a passepartout and a canceled plate in a well in the bottom of the case.
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- Creator
- etchings by Leonard Baskin ; note by Jose Yglesias
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Leeds, Mass.] : The Gehenna Press, 1983
- Physical Details
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- Regular edition, copies 16-45: 1 case (3 volumes) : 34 illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
- Deluxe edition, copies 1-15: 1 case (5 volumes) : 68 illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
- OCLC
- ocm14358109
- "Forty five copies of Diptera were printed at the Gehenna Press. The etchings were printed from the original plates on divers English hand-made papers. The edition is arranged as follows: copies numbered 1-5 have a second signed suite of the etchings, differentially printed; these copies also contain a watercolor drawing & one of the etched plates, lightly cancelled. Ten copies, numbered 6-15, have a second signed set of the etchings, printed as above on different papers & in variant colors. Thirty copies forming the regular edition are numbered 16-45. All copies have some watercolor in-painting"--Colophon.
- The list of subjects in the letterpress gathering omits one, "Squashed fly."
- Gehenna Press, entry 82
- Fern, A.M. Complete prints of Leonard Baskin, entries 688-721
- Cicada -- Earwig -- Squashed fly -- Bee fly -- Grasshoppers mating -- House fly -- Small headed fly -- Blow fly -- Long-clawed scarabs mating -- Praying mantis -- Blow fly: yellow paper -- Earwig -- Boatman -- Blackfly -- Robber fly -- Cave cricket -- Caddis fly: head -- Horsefly -- Firefly: lightening [sic] bug -- Tachina grossa -- Yellow fever mosquito -- Dragon fly -- Tsetse fly -- Cockroach -- Damsel fly -- Robber fly -- Tiger beetle -- Horsefly -- Silverfish -- Crane fly -- Ichneumon fly -- May fly -- Flesh fly -- House fly