The writer
By: Richard Wilbur ; images by Charles Hobson.
Contributors: Hobson, Charles, 1943-; Pacific Editions.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Pacific Editions]
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Notes: Poem.

"A two part limited edition of 54 copies ... The full text has been printed letterpress by Charles Hobson ... These pages [bound 20 x 30 cm.] have been interleaved with vellum sheets printed with digital pigment prints and hand cut with the shapes of a starling in flight based on the drawings by Charles Hobson. The accompanying flip book, or 'flutter book,' [9 x 30 cm.] containing a selection of certain words from the poem, has been bound as an accordion and scored so as to permit viewing in an extended manner ... [Both] are contained in a fabric covered clamshell box [31 x 31 cm.] which holds at its back a digital pigment print [17 x 15 cm.] hand colored with pastel by the artist"--Colophon.

LC has copy no. 18, signed by the artist.