Portraits of the 20th century
By: text by Lloyd Jonnes ; prints by John Ross.
Contributors: Ross, John, 1921-; High Tide Press.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: High Tide Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: East Hampton, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Biography -- 20th century; Biography -- 20th century -- Portraits; Celebrities -- Portraits; Pop-up books -- Specimens; Artists' books -- New York (State) -- East Hampton
Genres: Portraits; Specimens
Other titles: Portraits of the twentieth century
Notes: "Volume one," no more published?

Consists of brief essays on and images of nine people who influenced the twentieth century.

"The selection of the people to be portrayed in this volume was made by John Ross, though the text was written by Lloyd Jonnes of Washington, D.C. The images in the book were completed by a variety of methods, including the woodcut, soft ground etching and the collagraph"--Colophon.

Publication date from bookseller's description.

Title page printed in red and black with an image of green waves above "High Tide Press"; t.p. also has four rows of random, impressed, tan numbers behind the text. The book contains two pop-ups.

"The paper is Lenox 100 and the type is Garamond, set on the Linotype by Kent LeFebvre of Signs Plus in Holyoke, Mass. The binding was executed by James DiMarcantonio of the Hope Bindery in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. All the printing of type and images was completed by John Ross in the High Tide printshop in East Hampton, New York. The letterpress printing of the type was done on a Vandercook 219 including some wood type from the High Tide collection. The etchings and collagraphs were printed on a motorized Brand etching press. A second volume is planned."--Colophon.

Vendor: Heller.

LC copy is inscribed by Ross and Lloyd.

LC copy is numbered 7/17.

Bound in red cloth which incorporates a large yellow "20" stretching across both front and back covers and title printed in black; spine is in tan cloth with "Portraits of the twentieth century," the last names of John Ross and Lloyd Jonnes, and "VOL. 1" printed in red. Red cloth slipcase. Tan endpapers.
Table of contents: title: Orville and Wilbur Wright; title: Kathë Kollwitz; title: Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi; title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt; title: Albert Einstein; title: Louis Armstrong; title: Pablo Picasso; title: Georgia O'Keefe.