28 unnumbered leaves : 31 color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm. + 2 booklets
Description
"Margaret Wise Brown composed The little river in 1950. This edition of sixty copies, issued by Two Ponds Press ... marks its first illustrated publication. Michael Kuch created the etchings and paste-paper images, printed the copperplates and designed the book with oversight from Liv Rockefeller and Ken Shure"--Colophon. "Text copyright Hollins University; first published in White freesias by Watermark, Inc."--Leaf following colophon. Illustrated with 31 nearly full-page soft ground etchings, created in part from botanical specimens and other natural objects pressed into the ground, and images created from paste papers. Text is incorporated in several images. First accompanying booklet: The little river field notes / Michael Kuch & Liv Rockefeller. 9 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm. Cover title. Printed in red and black on double leaves. Contents: Reflections on The little river / by Michael Kuch -- Alternate endings / by Liv Rockefeller. Light blue paper covers with etched illustration on front cover; title in gold. Second accompanying booklet: The little river / Margaret Wise Brown. 22 sheets (22 leaves) ; 16 x 11 cm in covers 24 cm. Caption title. Color facsimile of Brown's holograph draft of the work. Sheets inserted in recess of back booklet cover, which is built up to a thickness of 5 mm. Blue paper covers, with light blue paper label on front cover containing a fragment of the facsimile and Brown's name in red. "Edition of sixty copies"--Colophon.
Local Note
Photographed and posted with permission of the artist. Skidmore has copy no. 52.
Archive Location
Artists' Book Collection - Call Number: PS3503.R82184 L5 2013
