Swimming lessons
By: poem, Nancy Willard ; drypoints, Michele Burgess
Contributors: Burgess, Michele, artist; Buenaventura, Alvin, printer; Cohen, Claudia, 1953- binder; Brighton Press; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Brighton Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [San Diego]
Language: eng
Subjects: Artists' books
Notes: Printed in black and blue.

Seven numbered bifolia are printed on the rectos of the first leaves only.  The seven drypoints follow the numbered leaves.  Unbound.

Edition of twenty.

"Hand set in Spectrum and printed letterpress by Alvin Buenaventura on nineteenth-century F.J. Head handmade paper. The drypoint etchings were printed on Rives paper by Michele Burgess, who bound the book in a painting fragment ... Claudia Cohen made the enclosure"--Colophon.

LC copy is number 10, signed by the author and the artist.

Issued in a black cloth-covered box held with clasps.