Book of Genesis
Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Item #23542 .
Tall 4to. 56 leaves unnumbered. Finely printed by hand by Lewis and Dorothy Allen ion all-rag handmade Umbria paper made in Italy. Printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. Decorative page heading in Hebrew with sentences from the first chapter of Genesis. Asian green endshets and guards for the illustratioms.
Bound in Fortuna cloth in an Iranian design, hand blocked in Venice.
24 illustrations engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Title in green and brown, woodcuts printed in brown; green and orange used for highlights in the text. The endsheets are lightly faded from the adhesive, else this is a fine copy housed in the original slipcase.
One of 140 copies.
Allen Press Bibliography, No. 35.
Price: $2,500.00