Trissel James (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. One of 75 copies, signed by Trissel. Folio. (20) ff. This fine contemporary press book is divided into four sections, each accordion-folded to permit easy display of the plates. Twenty-two vivid colorplates, printed with transparent lithographic inks on metal set type-high, demonstrate the color theory explained in the first section. The remaining three sections illustrate "The Quartered Spectrum," "Families of Analogous Color," and "Complementary Pairs." Unbound, as issued, in a white acrylic chemise and a handsome oak box.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. One of 75 copies, signed by Trissel. Quarto. (52)pp. Equal parts a scientific and aesthetic exploration of the skulls of various mammalian orders, including representative illustrations and descriptions for the Eastern Cottontail Rabbit, the weasel, and the house cat. Illustrations, of which there are twelve, rendered as photo engravings by Charles Moore. Printed in black, tan, and brown inks. Fine, in gray cloth-backed linen boards, with frontal view of a skull stamped to upper cover. From the library of Kim Merker.

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.