Description
72pp. For one of the last productions of The Old Stile Press, Meredith uses the complex medieval verse-form of the sestina together with the “essential vocabulary” of a stone age proto-language to realize ” a non-dualistic world in which there are no barriers between metaphor & fact, in which snow can speak & earth can think, in which the inner & the universal are one.” The whole edition consists of 26 lettered copies for sale & 3 hors commerce; one each for the author, artist & publisher (this copy being that of the author). Linocut prints with hand-inking by the artist using techniques that result in each proof exhibiting unique features. Each print is signed & laid into a folded sheet with text printed facing the image. Together they are in a cloth covered portfolio housed in a clamshell box lined with velvet & a printed paper label on its upper surface. Signed at their afterwords by Meredith & Philpott, while the publisher, Nicolas McDowall’s signature is at the colophon where, after ‘This is Copy’ he adds “is for C M” as well as ,on the front of the portfolio, “This copy is for Christopher Meredith” (all in pencil). One folded sheet has a very small, faint grease spot not affecting any text or image. Folded sheets in cloth portfolio & clamshell box
