Description

New hardcover, quarto size volume with linen spine and tips over patterned paper covered boards, in publisher’s bright green dust-jacket. Unpaginated. Illustrated with Wharton Esherick’s wood-cuts and calligraphy. A reproduction of Esherick’s original prototype, though in a slightly smaller format [original 17 x 12 inches, this edition a large quarto, 11 3/4 x 9 inches]. First edition thus, authorized by the Wharton Esherick Museum. A finely produced and printed work including wood-cuts not present in the 1924 Harold Mason limited edition and the recreating the original printing method of text and images being printed on one side of the sheet, which is then folded and bound with top edge uncut. A brand new copy.