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Call Number:
MSS 17
Creator:
Burnett, David, 1937-
Title(s):
Vines. Poems by David Burnett wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. The Rocket Press, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 1984.
Date:
1984
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series II: Publications Designed or Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith
Part of Collection:
volume Moss no. 107
Provenance:
Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
First edition. Hand-set in Bell type and printed by Jonathan Stephenson at The Rocket Press on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound with marbled paper from Compton Marbling and Richard de Bas hand-made endpapers. The edition is limited to 200 copies of which numbers 1 to 50 are hardbound with additional signed prints of the engravings, "Thais" and "Girl's Head" [Bain nos. 257 & 258] and numbers 51 to 200 are sewn into soft covers. This is number 32 of the 50 hardbound copies. Signed by Shirley Smith. The two engravings, signed and numbered xxxii/50, are each contained in individual folders with printed labels, all contained in a marbled-board slipcase. The poems are drawn from a larger collection entitled Thais. Six poems with images by Kenneth Lindley were published by the Pointing Finger Press of Hereford in a limited edition entitled Figures and Spaces in 1978 and a further fifty in Thais by the Black Cygnet Press of Durham in 1981. A record for this item is also available in the <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:show="new" xlink:href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3120566">Yale University Library Catalog.</extref>
Physical Description:
Pp. [1-24] ; 216 x 155 mm
Finding Aid Title:
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396059
Metadata Cloud URL:
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