Title from colophon. "Forty copies were printed, thirty of which are for sale"--Colophon. "The typeface used throughout most of Orpheus is Lirico, in its Roman & Italic forms and light weights ... The Greek typeface is Neohellenic ... All of the text was letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on [a] Vandercook 219. The large section of color on the covers and the opening and closing pages of the book were printed from collagraph blocks made with a brush texture in acrylic gel medium. The covers were hand-painted with acrylic gesso and the pages were painted with acrylic ink wash"--Colophon. "[The book] was written by the poet & letterpress printer Alan Loney. This book was designed and printed by Aaron Cohick at the Press at Colorado College during the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013. Two student apprentices at the Press, Taryn "Centauryn' Wiens and John "John Baskerville" Christie, assisted in the binding and hand coloring"--Colophon." Text printed in blue or white, text on most pages with dark blue background, page margins decorated in washes of blue and grey. Binding: quarter blue cloth, pink paper boards, lettered in blue pink and black, separate upper and lower boards sewn across spine in nine places with brown linen thread, black and pink endpapers. New Zealand author. Library copy is 21/40 and signed by the artist. IaU
OCLC:
(OCoLC)946802653
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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