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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director
Maria Epes
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Limited Edition and Private Press

Description

In producing Antechamber, poet and printer worked together in order to best present the poem and to create a book that is a beautiful object in itself. It is published in a small edition because of the commitment to good production and a limited budged.  The Poythress Press publishes to be involved in a collaborative process which is expensive in time, but perhaps the best product of bookmaking.

Credits
Production manager: Maria Epes
Author: Michael McClure
Size: 8.5 x 12 inches
Pages: 23
Quantity printed: first printing of 56
Price: $44.00
Typefaces: Text in 12/14, 13/14 Monotype Van Dijck, Display in Monotype Van Dijck
Typesetter: MacKenzie-Harris Corporation
Printer: Maria Epes, Printer
Papers: Strathmore charcoal, fog blue, text weight, Mill; portfolio-loose sheets
Paper manufacturers: Strathmore Paper Company, Schuberth Bookbindery
Paper supplies: California College of the Arts and Crafts Store
Binding: Bavaria, blue-green (spine), made by Bamberg Kalikofabrik, supplied by Schuberth Bookbindery; handmade cover paper, white (sides), made by The Farnsworth and Serpa Handmade Paper Mill, supplied by The Farnsworth and Serpa Handmade
Endpapers: handmade, light blue-green
Endpaper manufacturer: Maria Epes at The Farnsworth and Serpa Handmade Paper Mill
Publisher: Maria Epes