Walt Whitman's Faces: A Typographic Reading
Artist’s book, presented as a printer’s specimen, by Barbara Henry with an introductory essay by Karen Karbiener. Number 57 of 80 copies published in 2012 by Henry’s Harsimus Press. Printed from foundry type and linoleum cuts on a Vaandercook Proof Press. Per Henry, the designer and printer, “Walt Whitman's Faces resulted from reading a poem in the 1855 (first) edition of Leaves of Grass that struck me as being about typefaces. I set the poem as a type specimen, illustrating what I believed to be Whitman's descriptions of type with appropriate examples. Karen Karbiener, a Whitman scholar, contributed an essay on the poem.” 8vo (7.5” x 10.75”), 32 pages, rough orange paper wrappers with linoleum-cut pastedowns of Whitman in gray—as a young man on the front, and an older man on the back. Illustrated within with linoleum-cut images of the poet and two digitally printed photographs. Signed by artist at bottom of colophon page. Laid in is a four-page foldout (7.5” high) with images of Whitman in red, yellow, and black, sighed and dated by Henry. Barbara Henry is an artist, printer, and poet publishing under the imprint Harsimus Press. She is Master Printer at The Center for Book Arts in New York City. Slight lean to spine. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Otherwise pristine.
Artist’s book, presented as a printer’s specimen, by Barbara Henry with an introductory essay by Karen Karbiener. Number 57 of 80 copies published in 2012 by Henry’s Harsimus Press. Printed from foundry type and linoleum cuts on a Vaandercook Proof Press. Per Henry, the designer and printer, “Walt Whitman's Faces resulted from reading a poem in the 1855 (first) edition of Leaves of Grass that struck me as being about typefaces. I set the poem as a type specimen, illustrating what I believed to be Whitman's descriptions of type with appropriate examples. Karen Karbiener, a Whitman scholar, contributed an essay on the poem.” 8vo (7.5” x 10.75”), 32 pages, rough orange paper wrappers with linoleum-cut pastedowns of Whitman in gray—as a young man on the front, and an older man on the back. Illustrated within with linoleum-cut images of the poet and two digitally printed photographs. Signed by artist at bottom of colophon page. Laid in is a four-page foldout (7.5” high) with images of Whitman in red, yellow, and black, sighed and dated by Henry. Barbara Henry is an artist, printer, and poet publishing under the imprint Harsimus Press. She is Master Printer at The Center for Book Arts in New York City. Slight lean to spine. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Otherwise pristine.
Artist’s book, presented as a printer’s specimen, by Barbara Henry with an introductory essay by Karen Karbiener. Number 57 of 80 copies published in 2012 by Henry’s Harsimus Press. Printed from foundry type and linoleum cuts on a Vaandercook Proof Press. Per Henry, the designer and printer, “Walt Whitman's Faces resulted from reading a poem in the 1855 (first) edition of Leaves of Grass that struck me as being about typefaces. I set the poem as a type specimen, illustrating what I believed to be Whitman's descriptions of type with appropriate examples. Karen Karbiener, a Whitman scholar, contributed an essay on the poem.” 8vo (7.5” x 10.75”), 32 pages, rough orange paper wrappers with linoleum-cut pastedowns of Whitman in gray—as a young man on the front, and an older man on the back. Illustrated within with linoleum-cut images of the poet and two digitally printed photographs. Signed by artist at bottom of colophon page. Laid in is a four-page foldout (7.5” high) with images of Whitman in red, yellow, and black, sighed and dated by Henry. Barbara Henry is an artist, printer, and poet publishing under the imprint Harsimus Press. She is Master Printer at The Center for Book Arts in New York City. Slight lean to spine. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Otherwise pristine.
