• Random Reports II / Barbara Henry
Random Reports II / Barbara Henry Random Reports II / Barbara Henry Random Reports II / Barbara Henry

Random Reports II / Barbara Henry

Pamphlet bindings


FA.B16.0437
15.7 x 25.6 cm; 6 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches
2007
Roni Gross
The New York Times
Barbara Henry
Harsimus Press
Jersey City
Pamphlet bound chapbook with dark gray flap fold wrappers, and hand stitched binding with rust colored thread; off center, exterior title plate and printed spine.

"Each poem was constructed out of randomly chosen words and phrases cut from the dated first section of The New York Times. The poems and the frontispiece wood engraving were made by the printer. 65 copies of this book were hand set in foundry and wood type and printed on a Vandercook Proof Press by Barbara Henry in Jersey City, New Jersey. Text printed from a polymer plate made with assistance from Roni Gross, poems were handset in foundry type from the Dale Guild and printed in an edition of 50 copies on a Vandercook Press by Barbara Henry in Jersey City. Central interior folio contains printed illustration entitled, "Names of the Dead". --Colophon.