The fragments of Parmenides
By: & an English translation [and afterword] by Robert Bringhurst ; wood engravings by Richard Wagener.
Contributors: Koch, Peter Rutledge.; Bringhurst, Robert.; Wagener, Richard.; Gotthold, Peggy.; Kelm, Daniel E.; Peter Koch, Printers.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Editions Koch
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Parmenides; Parmenides -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Other titles: Fragments of Parmenides and an English translation by Robert Bringhurst
Work titles: Nature.
Notes: "Afterword : the poetry of philosophy and the survival of pagan thinking," p. [41]-[51].

"Designed by Peter Koch and printed by hand ... There are 146 copies in all. The wood engravings were printed by the artist. The main text was set by hand ... Two ... typefaces were designed especially for this edition. Christopher Stinehour designed the Diogenes Greek ... Dan Carr designed and cut the Parmenides Greek by hand in steel ... 120 numbered copies were bound by Peggy Gotthold in quarter leather ... protected by a case that is covered in Japanese silk. Twenty-six copies, lettered A to Z, were bound in full leather by Daniel Kelm and enclosed in a dropback box. Each lettered copy includes a boxed suite of ten signed wood engravings by Richard Wagener and a type specimen sheet of the Diogenes and the Parmenides types"--Colophon.

LC has lettered copy 'L' signed by Peter Koch, Richard Wagener and Robert Bringhurst; the main text in Daniel Kelm's black leather binding with Wagener illustration stamped in blind.