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Title

Poetry of Sappho

Description

Limited edition of 400 copies. || Issued in slip case. || "Poetry of Sappho is the ninety-third publication of the Arion Press. The edition is limited to 400 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. The types are Garamont, designed by Frederic Goudy, set by hand for the translations and in Monotype composition-casting for the introduction, and digital Adobe Garamond Greek in computer-generated composition made into polymer plates for the Greek texts. The images by Julie Mehretu were printed from polymer plates and made from negatives with the emulsion scratched by the artist with an etching needle for the linear art and from scans of overlay images drawn by the artist. The wood engravings by Anita Cowles Rearden date from the 1870s and were made for a book on Sappho and Alcæus written by her husband, Judge Timothy Rearden, but never published. Original woodblocks and electrotypes made from them, on loan from the library of the Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco, were used for the printing. The presswork is by letterpress, in Italian mouldmade Revere paper. The book was designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Blake Riley, Brian Ferrett, David Johnston, Christopher Godek, Mark Sarigianis, Lewis Mitchell, Sarah Songer, Rochelle Youk, Leif Erlandsson, Rachel Hooper, Lyssa Black, and Diana Ketcham. All copies are signed by the artist."--Colophon

Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)

Q. SFFP 881 S2.Eda

Authors

Sappho.

Date

2011

From the Exhibit

Sappho's Literary Legacies and Afterlives:Δ. ̓Ερμηνεία και Λήψη, Interpretation and Reception

Publisher

Arion Press

Location

San Francisco (Calif.)

Language

English

Rights

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Type

text

Medium

book

Bibliographic Citation

Sappho et al. Poetry of Sappho. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011. Shelfmark Q. SFFP 881 S2.Eda