Price: £1,950
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1982
Stock Number: 74941
(Gehenna Press.) BASKIN (Leonard) and Sidney Kaplan.
A Gehenna Alphabet. The Drawings by Leonard Baskin with Aphorisms & Poems by Sidney Kaplan.
Description: 53/89 COPIES (from an overall edition of 110) signed by author and illustrator, printed in Caslon on white, cream, green and fawn handmade papers from Maidstone, colophon pomegranate press mark and title printed in red, text initials printed in red, russet, green and blue, 26 intricate, macabre letter illustrations printed from Baskin's line drawings, facing Kaplan's brief texts, vivid hand-coloured wood engraved owl at text end, bound before errata leaf, pp. [76], 8vo, parchment-covered boards, cover with title in gilt and gilt-stamped medallion bearing owl design by Baskin, gilt-lettered spine, publisher's slate blue marbled slipcase, near fine
Publication Details: [Lurley, Devon:] Gehenna Press, 1982
Notes: From Baskin's renowned Gehenna Press, the name derived from a line in the first Book of Dante's Paradise Lost, 'And black Gehenna call'd, the type of Hell', the dark text by the Press' editor, in perfect accord with the nature of the images. The ominous words for the final letter are particularly apocalyptic: 'Zounds! The facist strews his epileptic ticks: From A to Z, beward his bloodsy sticks.'
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