The testament of Cresseid : a retelling of Robert Henryson's poem
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The testament of Cresseid : a retelling of Robert Henryson's poem
Classmark: Artists' Books 308
Creator(s): Heaney, Seamus (1939-2013)
Additional creator(s): O'Donoghue, Hughie (1953-) (Illustrator); Henryson, Robert (1430?-1506?) (Other); Stuart-Smith, Stephen (Publisher); Carter, Sebastian (1941-) (Printer); Sykes, Richard (1946-2019) (Former owner); Mason, Penny (Former owner); Enitharmon Press (Publisher); Rampant Lions Press (Printer); BAS Printers Ltd. (Printer of plates); Fine Bindery (Firm) (Binder)
Related people: Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?
Publisher: Enitharmon Editions
Publication city: London
Date(s): 2004
Language: English
Size and medium: 41 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/779785
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020556497605181
Description
Private press book.
"First published in 2004 by Stephen Stuart-Smith, Enitharmon Editions"--T.p. verso.
"The text... has been designed and printed by Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. The prelims and introduction are set in Perpetua and the poem is hand-set in 18 pt. Golden Cockerel Roman. The paper is 160 gsm Arches Vélin. The plates in the text have been printed by BAS printers and the books have been bound and slipcased by the Fine Bindery in Northamptonshire"--Colophon.
Illustrated by six mounted plates.
"The de luxe edition consists of seventy-five copies and twenty-five hors commerce copies, signed by Seamus Heaney and Hughie O'Donoghue and numbered 1 to 75 and i to xxv. With each copy is a signed and numbered original etching by Hughie O'Donoghue, printed by Simon Marsh. The regular edition consists of three hundred and fifty signed copies, numbered 76 to 425 and twenty-five hors commerce copies, signed and numbered xxvi to l."--Colophon.
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 308 is copy 176 of the regular edition; signed by signed by Seamus Heaney and Hughie O'Donoghue on final page.
Leeds University Library copy at BC Enitharmon/HEA is copy xxiii of the deluxe edition, signed by Seamus Heaney and Hughie O'Donoghue on final page.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 308 [and] BC Enitharmon/HEA: dark green cloth, title label on spine, small mounted plate on front cover; BC Enitharmon/HEA in dark green cloth slipcase.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 308: Gift from the collection of Richard Sykes and Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society, 2023. Purchased by Richard Sykes and Penny Mason from The Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts, London 1995.
Access and usage
Access
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