[BIBLIOPHILIE ] - DICKENS (Charles), MAHN (Berthold) -Livre Rare Book
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A Ghost Story of Christmas: Being a Christmas Carol
201738275Ogdensburg NY: Caliban Press 2017. Fine. Number 63 of about 110 copies signed and numbered by the highly regarded book artist and printer Mark McMurray. This is a beautifully produced new edition of A Christmas Carol that captures the power of this timeless story through the inventive use of text images paper type and binding. McMurray writes in the prospectus: "We know the story we know the characters but the language of the text offers new rewards with each reading. This edition of Dickens' classic returns to the dark sleep-deprived angst of the original complete text." The prospectus states that the text in this edition comes from the 1843 edition with minor corrections. Printed on a variety of handmade and mould-made papers including Zerkal Ingres and papers from La Papeterie-St. Armand. The text is printed entirely from metal and wood types including monotype Bell plus many from the 19th century. There are wonderful images of the ghosts that visit Scrooge on that fateful night and many other ornaments and designs throughout. They are done in various media including pochoir collage wood engraving and relief blocks. Bound in black ribbed flexible covers with a red morocco leather spine with title in gilt on spine and inside a cutout on the front cover. Housed in a stiff black paper slipcase with a subtle chain design. In fine condition. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. 107 pages. PRI/121725. Caliban Press unknown
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