22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 x 14 cm
OCLC
on1140400827
"Hand work"--Cover.
"4 Harry & Walter"--Colophon.
With excerpts from prose works by canonical American poets Ralph Waldo Emerson (Society & Solitude, first published in 1870) & Walt Whitman (An American Primer, 1904); & avant-garde modern classical composer Arnold Schoenberg (Style & Idea, 1975) accompanied by illustrations.
Typefaces are Syntax extra bold, New Aurora Grotesque, Gill Sans, Vendome bold italic, a wooden face, Weiss Initials III, Sabon, Bauer Bodoni, Smaragd. The cover and end sheets are hand made at the MacGregor-Vinzani paper mill. The text papers are Monadock, Eastern, Kuomi, Mohawk, and Uwa. This is a group of quotes by Emerson, Arnold Schoenberg, and Whitman, with various relief images. Media: letterpress, wood and lino relief.