Heading: (Koch, Peter)
Author: Homer
Title: The Helen Fragments, from books three & six of Homer's Iliad
Place Published: Berkeley
Publisher:Editions Koch
Date Published: 2003
Description:

Translated by Richard Siebert. Illustrated by Winifred McNeill. 28x14 cm (11x5½"), bound by John DeMerritt in stiff wrappers of handmade paper from the Magnolia Papermill; external longstitch design by Victoria Heifner; slipcase & chemise. No. 35 of 150 copies printed by Max Koch at Peter Koch Printers.

Signed by Richard Siebert and Winifred McNeill at colophon, as issued. The Helen Fragments is a collaboration between two contemporary artists who have come together over an ancient text that has fascinated readers for millennia. The poet and printer, Richard Seibert, has selected portions from Homer's Iliad that tell the tumultuous story of Helen of Troy and has translated them from the original Greek into contemporary lyric. Winifred McNeill, a New York based artist, working over a period of two years, completed over a hundred drawings for this project. Each of the fifty fragments is accompanied by a drawing that has been reconfigured digitally under the supervision of the artist and printed letterpress from polymer plates. Lot includes a copy of Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Also includes a copy of the prospectus for Fragments of Parmenides.

Fine.