Steigendes, neigendes Leben
Subtitle: zwölf Gedichte
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ... [et al.] ; Holzschnitte von Ilse Buchert Nesbitt = Rising and ebbing life : twelve German poems / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ... [et al.] ; translations and woodcuts by Ilse Buchert Nesbitt
Contributors: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Third & Elm Press
Publisher: Third & Elm Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Newport, R.I
Language: ger
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Artists' books; German poetry; Translations into English; Type and type-founding; Specimens; Monotype Bembo type
Notes: Consists of 13 color woodcuts, containing the German texts (including title) and illustrations, with facing English translations printed letterpress.

"The poems were cut in maple wood, hand set in Monotype Bembo, printed onto Rives paper on an 1897 Golding platen press and bound in self-made paper by Ilse Buchert Nesbitt at The Third & Elm Press in Newport, Rhode Island. The printing was completed on April 10, 2001. 100 copies were printed. This copy is No. ..."--Colophon, hand numbered and signed by Nesbitt.

The woodcuts, pulled on paper made by the artist especially for these prints, with a title and half title, were also issued separately in a portfolio in an edition of 20 copies; the individual poems were also issued as separate matted prints, each in an edition of 10 copies.--Prospectus.

Rare Book copy: No. 21.
Table of contents: title: Zum Sehen geboren ... = Born to see ... [from Faust] / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; title: Lied = Song / Stefan George; title: Alle Landschaft haben ... = All the landscapes have ... / Georg Heym; title: Trost = Solace / Ina Seidel; title: Juli = July / Theodor Storm; title: Der Abend = The evening / Joseph von Eichendorff; title: Im Grase = In the grass / Josef Weinheber; title: Nachtlied = Nightsong / Friedrich Hebbel; title: Hälfte des Lebens = Half of life / Friedrich Hölderlin; title: Fülle = Abundance / Conrad Ferdinand Meyer; title: Späte Zeit (1933) = Late time (1933) / Peter Huchel; title: Ein Winterabend = A winter evening / Georg Trakl.