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Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston
Author: Cotton Mather (American, 1663–1728)
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (American, 1807–1892)
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, 1804–1864)
Author: Henry David Thoreau (American, 1817–1862)
Illustrated by: Richard Bosman (Australian (born India, active U.S.), born in 1944)
Printer and Publisher: Arion Press, San Francisco
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (American, 1807–1892)
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, 1804–1864)
Author: Henry David Thoreau (American, 1817–1862)
Illustrated by: Richard Bosman (Australian (born India, active U.S.), born in 1944)
Printer and Publisher: Arion Press, San Francisco
1987
Place of Publication: San Francisco, California, USA
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with thirty-five woodcuts
On Rives heavyweight paper; brown boards
On Rives heavyweight paper; brown boards
Dimensions
Overall: 43.3 x 32.6 x 1.8 cm (17 1/16 x 12 13/16 x 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
GIft of Lois B. Torf in memory of Michael K. Torf
Accession Number1988.418
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Africa and Oceania, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987
Description(San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987) 43.3 cm; 53 pp. [1 f.]; publisher's original half brown cloth with printed paper label, brown paper boards.
Copy from the regular edition of 400, plus 25 copies not for sale. From the colophon: "This, the twenty-fourth Arion Press edition, was designed, printed and bound under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem. The types are Frederic W. Goudy's Kennerley Bold, handset for the main texts, composed in Monotype for the introduction and subsidiary material, with Rudolf Koch's Neuland Inline for display. The paper is Rives heavyweight, a mouldmade sheet from France. Members of the Press included: Kevin Ahern, Mary Bisbee, G. B. Carson, Matthew Kelsey, Gerald Reddan, Glenn Todd. and Lawrence Van Velzer." Todd also wrote the historical introduction. The texts concern the capture and escape two weeks later of Hannah Duston of Haverhill, Massachusetts, in March 1697.
Copy from the regular edition of 400, plus 25 copies not for sale. From the colophon: "This, the twenty-fourth Arion Press edition, was designed, printed and bound under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem. The types are Frederic W. Goudy's Kennerley Bold, handset for the main texts, composed in Monotype for the introduction and subsidiary material, with Rudolf Koch's Neuland Inline for display. The paper is Rives heavyweight, a mouldmade sheet from France. Members of the Press included: Kevin Ahern, Mary Bisbee, G. B. Carson, Matthew Kelsey, Gerald Reddan, Glenn Todd. and Lawrence Van Velzer." Todd also wrote the historical introduction. The texts concern the capture and escape two weeks later of Hannah Duston of Haverhill, Massachusetts, in March 1697.
Signed
Graphite on recto of frontispiece: "Bosman"
ProvenanceLois B. Torf, by whom given to MFA, September 28, 1988.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.