The death of Venus
By: by Dame Edith Sitwell ; lithographs by Mark Beard ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Feingold
Contributors: Beard, Mark; Charrière, Gérard, 1935- binder; Joyce, Carol, binder; Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company
Publisher: Vincent Fitz Gerald
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Artists' books
Notes: 50 copies printed in dark blue and red on Rives B.F.K. paper at Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Mass.; signed in red pencil by the artist.

A poem, "published here as it appears in a manuscript notebook of Dame Edith Sitwell, now in the collection of Paul W. Motter"--Colophon.

Title page calligraphy by the artist.

Illustrations: 7 prints : lithograph, b&w (1), col. (6) ; irreg. image 22-54 cm. x 77 cm. (1) and image 16 x 11 cm. or smaller (6). Each signed or initialed on verso in red pencil. "Printed on Arches '88' paper at the Prasada Press, Cincinnati, by Theresa Ruggerie"--Colophon. Large folded print has blind stamp (printer's device). Small prints printed in color with additional hand coloring by the artist.

Issued unbound, in green cloth case by Gerard Charriere and Carol Joyce. Gray leather appliqué on spine of case in the form of a classical column.