Hatch Benton Comp (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Quarter cloth over pale blue paper covered boards. Housed in matching board slipcase.Title label on spine and slipcase. Separate title label loosely laid in. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. This is number 378. With 3 illustrations and 19 facsimiles of title pages printed on Arches and on Shizuoka to simulate the papers used by Mosher. Near fine copy with a few tiny spots on spine and a small bump to lower corner at the back cover. Slipcase with paper loss to lower edge but holding. 213 pp. 27,5 x 19,5 cm.

First Edition. Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1966. Limited edition, one of 500 Copies, printed on Fabriano Paper in Monotype Van Dijck. Illustrated with 19 Mounted Letter Press Facsimiles of Title pages in Red and Black on Paper closely Simulating those used by Mosher. This is the printer's copy, inscribed by Baskin and presented to Stanley Clifford "with the affection of" Leonard Baskin, dated 1967. Clifford started as a hand leather bookbinder at Bennett Book Studio in Manhattan. He came to be respected as one of the finest craftsmen practicing this trade, a reputation that allowed work to follow him to Deer Isle, ME where he and fellow islander Leonard Baskin became close friends, attracted by a mutual interest in the book arts. Ironically, an unbound copy in 20 signatures. Some staining to rear page and signature spines.

(MOSHER, THOMAS BIRD). HATCH, Benton L., comp. A Check List of the Publications of Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland, Maine MDCCCXCI-MDCCCCXXIII. With a Biographical Essay by Ray Nash. Original linen-backed boards, printed paper spine label, housed in publisher's matching board slipcase. [Northampton]: Printed at the Gehenna Press for the University of Massachusetts Press, 1966. Small 4to. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Additional printed spine label tipped onto rear free endpaper. Fine in very good slipcase.