Skulls
Subtitle: poems
By: by Jonathan Maslow ; etchings & woodcuts by Leonard Baskin
Contributors: Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000, artist; Carr, Dan, 1951-2012, type designer; Horowitz, Sarah, 1977-, printer; Kuch, Michael, 1965-, printer; Larson, Arthur (Printer), printer; Larson, Arthur (Printer), compositor; Benson, John Everett, 1939-, calligrapher; Maslow, Jonathan Evan, signer; Baskin, Lisa Unger, signer; Gehenna Press; Double Elephant Press; Golgonooza Letter Foundry; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: The Gehenna Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leeds, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Other titles: Skvlls
Work titles: Poems
Notes: "Thirty-four copies of a book of Skulls were issued by the Gehenna Press of Leeds, Massachusetts, during the deep frigid snows of early winter 2003. John E. Benson, of Newport, Rhode Island, has lettered the great Skulls of the title page. The Centaur & Arrighi types for the text were cast by Dan Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry in Ashuelot, New Hampshire. Arthur Larson achieved the composition & letterpress printing. The copperplates were printed by Michael Kuch & Sarah Horowitz at The Double Elephant Press in Northampton, Massachusetts; all the color is printed. The woodcuts were printed from the blocks by Arthur Larson in Hadley, Massachusetts. A variety of Japanese and European handmade papers was used throughout"--Colophon.

"The edition is arranged as follows: copies numbered 1-10 contain a leaf of manuscript by Jonathan Maslow, a second suite of the prints on various papers, a copperplate or a woodblock, and an original drawing by Leonard Baskin; copies 11-34 comprise the regular edition. All copies are signed by Jonathan Maslow and Lisa Baskin"--Colophon.

Title page in red and black.

Bound in yellow, red, and black leather; title, author, artist, and border stamped in gilt; endpapers are yellow paste paper.

LC has copy number 1, which includes the woodblock for the print on page 89, manuscript by Maslow of the poem Crane, a suite of 31 prints, and an original drawing by Baskin dated 1994.