Perishable Press Whitman Sampler Jim Lee Woodcuts
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Author: Wiley, Richard
Title: Whitman Sampler. One Chapter from Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show.
Place Published: Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
Publisher:Perishable Press
Date Published: 1999
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Not paginated. Color woodcut illustrations by Jim Lee. 24.5x16.5 cm (9¾x6¾") cloth-backed boards. No.19 of 121 copies.
The 125th book from the press. A chapter from Wiley's sixth novel. Signed by the author at the front and by publisher Walter Hamady at the rear. Selected by the AIGA as one of the 50 best designed books of the year.
Walter Hamady (born 1940) is an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking exemplified in the productions of The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill, founded by Hamady in the mid-1960s. In 1966 Hamady joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he would teach papermaking, letterpress printing, and bookbinding for more than three decades.
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