The mountain spirit / Gary Snyder.

Hopewell, New Jersey : Pied Oxen Printers, 2014.

1 scroll : illustrations ; 271 x 22 cm

BEIN 2021 304: Number 43. Measures 22 x 303 cm. Autographs: David Sellers, Gary Snyder. Housed in a custom wood case.

Design, hand-composition of ATF Garamond 459 and 460 foundry types, letterpress printing on a Vandercook Universal I press, and handscroll binding in Japanese bookcloth and decorative papers were done by David Seller. The frontispiece Enso and tailpiece skull image, by unidentified Edo period Zen Bhuddist monks, were printed from type-high magnesium photoengravings made from the original sumi-e hanging scroll paintings. The type and artwork are printed on Okawara washi, 60 grs weight. The top bar hyomoku and bottom rod jikugi are red cedar. Black walnut kirijiku knobs are joined to the jikugi by mortise and tenon. Each handscroll is fitted in a paulownia wooden box custom-made to the binder's specifications by Mihagi-Kougei Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Typesetting began in late 1995 and final edits were done in March 1996. After an eighteen years' pause, printing was done December 2013 to February 2014. The edition comprises 60 copies signed by the poet and printer. -- Colophon

English

February 22, 2021