Heading: (Goldyne, Joseph, artist)
Author: Thomas, Lewis
Title: Quartet
Place Published: San Francisco and Berkeley
Publisher:Pacific Editions and the Arif Press
Date Published: [1986]
Description:

36 pp. With 4 signed etchings by Joseph Goldyne, as well as an extra color plate signed by the artist, loose inside paper folder. Title calligraphy by John Prestianni. (4to) 31x21 cm (12x8¼") brown quarter-morocco and decorative beige boards, spine lettered in gilt, housed in brown cloth drop-back box with paper spine label. No. 105 of 165 copies, all on Twinrocker handmade rag paper; hand-bound by Klaus-Ullrich Rotzscher; printed by Robert Townsend and Kate Hanlon; printed letterpress and designed at the Arif Press by Wesley B. Tanner.

Signed by the author and artist in the colophon. A collaborative effort of artists and printers revealing the National Book Award-winner, Lewis Thomas' themes of symbiosis in life on Earth, etc. The etchings incorporate a variety of graphic techniques, including aquatint, spitbite, drypoint, and hard and soft ground methods. They were proofed by Kay Bradner at Katherine Lincoln Press.

Mild sunning and soiling to box; volume and print fine.