ZEPHYROS: the book untitled
By Alan Loney
Victoria, Australia: Electio Editions, 2007. Edition of 30 with 26 copies lettered A to Z for sale.
1445 x 230 mm; 48 pages. Paintings on Magnani mouldmade. Printings on Magnani mouldmade and Zerkall Nideggen mouldmade. Black, red, blue, and gold printing on Zerkall Nideggen mouldmade. Magnani sheets printed in black only. Types: Dante, Civilite, Libra, Franklin Gothic Greek, Open Kapitalen, Castellar. Bound in Cave handmade paper covered boards. In a red cloth-covered slipcase.
Prospectus: "The ancient Greek word Zephyros has a number of meanings: a warm wind as harbinger of spring in the Mediterranean, a light gauze shawl or shirt, a light infantryman, a butterfly, and of course the god of the west wind itself. This book plays on all these meanings, especially punning on the leaves of trees and the leaves of the book, thru a series of fragmentary texts on the nature of the book as an idea and as a reality, accompanied by five handpainted acrylic drawings. While the texts came first and Miriam Morris's drawings were responses to them, the typographical settings of the texts were often done in direct response to the drawings. The result is a variety of settings in various types and a group of colorful and lively original paintings, each keeping close to its own first version, but nevertheless each being also slightly different from the others.
"Zephyros is the 51st book by the printer, the 6th Electio edition, and the 2nd collaboration by Alan Loney & Miriam Morris."
$1,500 AUD |
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The Flowery Meadow
being Canto XXVIII of PURGATORIO
from DANTE’S LA DIVINA COMMEDIA
Victoria, Australia: Electio Editions, 2005. Edition of 26.
6 x 9"; 39 pages. Dante, Zapf Civilité and Open Kapitalen types printed onto damped Magnani mouldmade paper on a Pratt Albion handpress. Drawings reproduced from magnesium blocks supplied by Hitech All graphics and printed on the handpress. Bound quarter-leather with cloth covered sides and cloth slipcase made by Norbert Herold.
A bilingual presentation (English/Italian). Translation by Chris Wallace-Crabbe: “In translating this Canto…I determined early to treat it as a poem in itself.” Drawings by Bruno Leti: “I comment in lines, colors, and shapes. Those are the tools of my trade.”
Electio Editions: "Continuing the printer’s interest in bilingual texts and the classical literary tradition, the English and Italian texts are interleaved in two colors throughout.”
$1,500 AUD (Three copies remain) |
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New Leaf
By Alan Loney and Miriam Morris
Victoria, Australia: Electio Editions, 2005. Edition of 100.
6.25 x 9.5"; 10 pages. Dante and Civilité types; magnani mouldmade paper damped for printing on an Albion handpress; khadi Indian handmade cover with the binding sewn at the press. Signed by the poet/printer and the artist.
Electio Editions: "This book features five drawings by one of Australia’s best known viola da gamba players, with poems written by her partner Alan Loney. Each drawing faces one of the poems, and all are printed in color. While the images are not mere illustrations of the individual poems they face, they nonetheless mirror subtly the tone and intention of the poems as a group."
$120 AUD |
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PRIMA MATERIA
By Alan Loney
Australia: Electio Editions, 2005. Edition of 50.
7.5 x 10"; 27 pages. Printed with a Pratt-Albion handpress on Magnani damped handmade 160 gsm paper. Housed in a red cloth covered portfolio box.
This is the Loney's fiftieth limited edition book. In the introduction Loney discusses his printing career and the types used by his presses. He opened Hawk Press in 1975. Later there was Black Light Press and Holloway Press (with Peter Simpson at the University of Auckland). Since 2004 Electio Editions has been Loney's imprint.
This edition is a type specimen book with examples of the types in use by the press. Included is a new press mark for Electio Editions, designed by Deirdre Hassed. In addition to the specimens, there are illustrations throughout, some in color.
$750 AUD
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