[SPECIAL PRESS] [CONSTELLATIONS] PHENOMENA [POETICA ASTRONOMICA]

Aratus | John Lamb (Translator) | Erhard Ratdolts ~(Woodcuts) | Paul Q. Holbrook (Notes)

Lexington, Ky. Anvil Press | King Library Press, 1975, 1982.

Hard Cover. Quarto; in orange pastepaper-covered boards, with dustjacket printed in black and embossed with “polus articus”; [84] pages, followed by the colophon, with errata leaf laid in; printed in black and red on heavy hand-made paper with bottom deckled edge; edition limited to 75 copies of which this is #67.~~The colophon provides the rather convoluted printing history: ~“Chronology PHENOMENA. 1961-1969 Victor and Carolyn Hammer. together with Nancy Lair, designed this book for the Anvil Press. Nancy Lair was its printer with Caroline Hernandez and W. Gay Reading serving intermittently as apprentices. 1970 + 1971 W. Gay Reading + 1972-1973 + 1974-1975 The work was completed at the King Library Press, University of Kentucky, by Christopher Meatyard, Gray Zeitz, Barbara Harris, Joseph Argabrite; Lynn Murray, Travis DuPriest, and Carolyn Whitesel, assistants at the press.~.

Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
Item #296608

Price: $500.00