Order Nr. 100262 GEORGICS. Virgil.
GEORGICS.
GEORGICS.
GEORGICS.
GEORGICS.
GEORGICS.

GEORGICS.

(Shanty Bay Press).

Translated by Robert Wells, Illustrated by Walter Bachinski.

  • (Shanty Bay, Ontario): Shanty Bay Press, (2007).
  • folio
  • quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase
  • Book I: 17 pp., Book II: 18 pp., Book III: 19 pp., Book IV: 19 pp., plus Colophon.
  • ISBN: 0968501834

Price: $4,000.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 100262

Limited to 67 copies of which 60 are for sale. Numbered and signed on the colophon by Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler, the designers, illustrators, and printers of the book. This is the fourth publication of the press. The type is Bembo, printed on Arches Covers. The woodcuts were printed on Kuotani 5. The woodcuts and pochoir illustrations are by Walter Bachinski who also did the stenciling and printing of the illustrations. Janis Butler did the hand composition, text and color printing. Each section of the book has its own pochoir-illustrated title page and initial letters in pochoir. Each of these sections are paginated separately. There are many full-page woodcuts throughout which enliven the text as well. Crispin Elsted, of Barbarian Press, reviews Georgics in the Fine Press Book Association's Parenthesis 15 (Autumn 2008), stating "...what sets the Georgics apart from the earlier Shanty Bay books is not only the pochoirs, glorious as they are, but the eight magnificent woodcuts which define the labour which Virgil writes about even as the colour illustrations celebrate its spirit." (page 41). A fine copy.