Smitty's cocks
Subtitle: eight wood engravings by Leonard Baskin ; drawn & carved for the use of Smith Glass, 1955-1974 : with a tipped-in original framing label
By: introduction by Carol J. Blinn
Contributors: Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000, engraver; Blinn, Carol J., binder, designer, printer; Smith, Louis, engraver, printer; Smith, Perry, engraver, printer; McGrath, Harold, printer; Smith Glass & Mirror Co; Warwick Press
Publisher: Warwick Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Easthampton, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Roosters in art; Roosters; Pictorial works; Type and type-founding; Specimens; Monotype Spectrum type
Notes: Title page printed in red and black typefaces.

Sewn; tied with white cord. Bound in dark red silk cloth over boards. On cover: paper title label lettered in red, illustrated with an engraving of a rooster. Dark red endpapers. Title paper label mounted on spine. Engravings mounted on leaves.

Errata slip tipped in before colophon page corrects binding information.

Wood engravings are part of a collection used by Leonard Baskin, and Louis and Perry Smith of the Smith Glass & Mirror Co.

Two of the eight engravings appear in: The complete prints of Leonard Baskin: a catalogue raisonné 1948-1983.

On colophon: Two hundred copies ... have been designed, printed by letterpress, and handbound by Carol J. Blinn at Warwick Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts ... The wood engravings, printed directly from the blocks, are used with Leonard's permission. The type is Monotype Spectrum and the paper is Biblio. The books are bound in French marbled paper over boards with paper labels. All books are signed by Leonard, Carol, and Perry.

Mounted on leaf [9]: Wood engraving with original framing label lettered in red by Harold McGrath that reads: Smith Glass, & Mirror Co., 279 Main Street, Northampton, Mass.

Rare Book copy: No. 75.

Rare Book copy: Accompanied by prospectus.