Shelfmark
Lt.1.21
Author
Uniform title
[Kékszallkállu herceg vára. Libretto. English]
Title
Duke Bluebeard's castle : libretto for the opera in one act by Béla Bartók / Béla Balász ; English performing version by John Lloyd Davies ; images by Susan Adams.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Llandogo, Monmouthshire : The Old Stile Press, 2005.
Physical description
[56] p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Note
Limited edition of 150 copies, numbered and signed by writer and artist.
Note
"The images use two different printmaking techniques. Woodcuts (printed in black or in white) are printed from the wood. The red printing was generated digitally and was printed letterpress (as was the whole of the book) from photopolymer line blocks."--Colophon.
Note
"The type is Joanna, the paper is BFK Rives and the binding is by The Fine Bindery, using imagery by the artist. The book was printed, in the autumn of 2005, by Nicolas McDowall, at The Old Stile Press ..."--Colophon.
Note
First and final leaves are blank.
Note
Publisher's red paper covered boards with wraparound design printed in black ; spine title printed in gunmetal grey ; dark grey endpapers ; in slipcase covered in dark grey paper with design printed in black, lined in black cloth.
Provenance
Inscribed in pencil: Michael Meredith.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is no. 33.
Subject
Artists' books.
Subject
Operas Librettos.
Added entry--name
Balász, Béla, 1884 - 1949 Kékszallkállu herceg vára.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Adams, Susan J. illustrator.
Added entry--name
Old Stile Press publisher.
Added entry--name
Fine Bindery bookbinder.
Added entry--place
Wales Llandogo.
Language code
eng hun
Identifier
B45111