Daedalus. [Parallel title in Greek]

Trissel, James

Published by The Press at Colorado College, [Colorado Springs], 1993

About this Item

Edition limited to 35 numbered copies signed by the printer James Trissel (this, copy no. 11); square folio, pp. [30]; illustrated throughout; original 3-toned blue cloth stamped in silver on the upper cover; fine copy. Letterpress from polymer plates. From the library of Kim Merker. "This book began as a personal investigation into the flight of birds and slipped into a meditation on our friend Daedalus for equally personal reasons . He was the appropriate conveyance for my own obsession with flight . print[ed] with the help of Sally Hegarty and Travis Jordan. David Curnutt made the countless negatives for plates and Charles Walters let us use his splendid photographs of skies . The type is computer-generated copperplate thirty-one BC and the paper is Magnani Pescia Incisioni" (colophon). The binding is by Greg Campbell at Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis. Drawings and some hand lettering; copier-printed materials (landscapes, diagrams and some calligraphic notation together with some handwritten remarks) from Lucite sheets. 23 halftones of photos and xeroxed images. Color printing of skies from Lucite sheets, and split-font color printing. Printed in black, blue, silver, red, yellow & gold.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Daedalus. [Parallel title in Greek]
• Publisher: The Press at Colorado College, [Colorado Springs]
• Publication Date: 1993
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