Of Peter Wells
ISBN
0 9508449 X
These books published in various forms over a number of years bring together most of the poetry written between 1940 and 1963. They contain poetry that has now been revised and newly collected (see Ref 015). They are bound from sheets produced by offset from original prints of the work and contain illustrations incorporated into the text which was made in the 1960s after the last poems in the collection were written.
Originally
these sheets were folded and bound uncut using acid free boards
and Japanese paper in various bindings between 1965 and 1990,
which the author made and circulated under the imprint De Mortuo
Mari Offsets, later the Badelesmere Press. Some of these books
are still available. (See Other Editions.)
The edition, produced in 1997 and later by The One Time Press, uses
the same uncut printed text, of which there are still many sheets.
The paper, Spicer's Plus Fabric White 110gsm, has survived forty
years with no visible sign of change.
The list
below gives individual features of these books. Very few, if any,
can be said exactly to replicate the others.
The
One Time Press edition 1997
The title page in this edition has been printed on mould made
Ingres paper 95gsm, 25% rag, made by Van Gelder and Zonen, Holland.
An Introduction and corresponding end papers were printed in handset
Times Roman on Lana pur fil, a French paper 125gsm and 100% rag
content.
For details
of this edition (1997) click on the reference number.
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- 001
Bound in quarter calf, with gilt lettering on spine, by Tim
Wiltshire, using a marbled paper from Sweden. Frontispiece illustration
woodcut or linocut behind lace patterned Japanese paper.
- 002
Bound in blue and brown cloth by Chris Hicks of Oxford with
marbled endpapers by Ann Muir. Handcoloured line block drawing
of St Levan, Cornwall.
- 003
Other copies include bindings in quarter linen with hand coloured
paste paper boards, mostly by Victoria Hall.
-
004
1982. Badelesmere Press. Cover illustration, binding, and woodcut
frontispiece are on Japanese papers. Two copies available, one
undated.
-
005
1981. As at 004, with handprinted title page.
-
006
1983 with line block frontispiece on Japanese paper, and hand
marbled endpapers by Passaglia, Basle, Switzerland dated 28.12.1980.
Otherwise as at 004.
-
007
1988 as at 004 above, but using another cover illustration.
Woodcut frontispiece on Japanese paper.
- 008
complete set of three books. In a slipcase, if required.
1.
1967. De Mortuo Mari Offsets, London. Cover illustration in
oil mounted on brown Japanese paper. Silkscreen overprint in
same colour on title page of two bands with wide serifs, enclosing
the title, and a diamond shape centre page. An experimental
copy not repeated.
2. 1988.
Another copy of the book described at 004 above.
3. 1997. Another copy of the book described at 001 above
- Collected and Revised Poems, The One Time Press, 2007
