Descriptive Information

Title

Altar book for Górecki : the Symphony of sorrowful songs by Henryk Górecki ; lyrics in Polish and English translation.

Call Number

Oversize Z232.P95 A47q

Identifier

ark:/88435/nc580x16z

Publisher

Middletown, CT : Robin Price, Publisher, 1996.

Language

English

Date Created

1996

Extent

3 plates : ill. ; 30 x 15 cm.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

"Inspired by the 1992 recording of Henryk Górecki's Symphony no. 3 ... The bird illustrations are from seventeenth-century copperplate engravings by Francis Willughby. Photographed by John Wareham, the illustrations were digitally adapted and made into polymer plates by Gerald Lange. The woodcut was designed and carved by Keiji Shinohara. Paul Shaw provided calligraphy of the Polish lyrics. The typefaces are Guild Samson uncial & Perpetua, printed onto hand-stained Wahon paper. Daniel Kelm provided consultation on the triptych structure; box design & construction is by Franklin Nichols Woodworking"--Colophon.

"Designed, printed & bound by Robin Price in an edition of sixty copies during the spring of 1996"--Colophon.

Issued in slide-top cherry wooden case (34 x 18 cm.)

Princeton copy, no. 36, is signed by publisher.

Discovery Information

Subject

Górecki, Henryk Mikołaj 1933-2010—Symphonies no. 3, op. 36

Artists' books

Physical Characteristics

File Count

2

Institutional Information

Collection

Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

Holding location

{@id=https://bibdata.princeton.edu/locations/delivery_locations/13}

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0683b486-eb41-4572-83de-ef77db312cf1/manifest

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