Pastoral Elegies
- Hardcover
- Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2024
Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2024. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. One of 140 copies. This is the 53rd book issued by the very fine Barbarian Press that Crispin and Jan Elsted founded in 1977. The book beautifully exemplifies their philosophy in the creation of books and the fine craftsmanship they bring to each. This handsome volume prints Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village." They are accompanied by an afterword by Crispin titled "Lives of the Poets." The well known illustrator Christopher Wormell provided the lovely black and white wood engravings for the text, and also for a separate suite of the six engravings, housed in a black cloth covered folder.
Bound in black half silk with gray decorated paper by Alanna Simenson at the Mad Hatter Bookbinding Company. Both the book and the portfolio of prints are housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. The text type is Bell with Fry's Ornamented for display, and printed on Zerkall ENE Extra Smooth paper. The cover paper is St-Armand Canal. The book was designed and hand-set by Crispin Elsted. Apollonia Elsted printed the poems, and Jan Elsted printed the remaining text and the engravings, which were printed from the wood. In fine condition. Measures 6.75 x 10.25 inches. Unpaginated [about 46 pages]. PRI/120224.
Bound in black half silk with gray decorated paper by Alanna Simenson at the Mad Hatter Bookbinding Company. Both the book and the portfolio of prints are housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. The text type is Bell with Fry's Ornamented for display, and printed on Zerkall ENE Extra Smooth paper. The cover paper is St-Armand Canal. The book was designed and hand-set by Crispin Elsted. Apollonia Elsted printed the poems, and Jan Elsted printed the remaining text and the engravings, which were printed from the wood. In fine condition. Measures 6.75 x 10.25 inches. Unpaginated [about 46 pages]. PRI/120224.