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[Broadside] Sappho. "and night dropped black sleep on their lids"
[Newark], VT: Janus Press, 1991. Broadside. Item #10453
Broadside. 20" x 14-3/8." Limited edition, one of 100 copies. Pulp painted with masonite relief cut by Peter Schumann and text set in 8 line Clarendon Condensed wood type with colophon retreating into the pulp painting being set in 10 pt Trump Mediaeval italic. Fine copy.
A beautiful broadside wonderfully designed using pulp painting by Van Vliet for the base. Schumann's cut at the bottom with the text stacked vertically. An engaging design with Sappho's evocative poetry, here translated from the Greek by Johanna Prins. Fine, Janus Press — Fifty Years, p. 45-6.
Price: $175.00