It’s Fine Press Friday!
Last week we presented a Limited Editions Club production of Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, translated by Lafcadio Hearn. This week we present the same text, but as presented by Lewis and Dorothy Allen, long-time proprietors of the Allen Press in Kentfield, California, in their 1974 publication printed in an edition of 140 copies. The imagery is from various world cultures, and the Allens use their favored handset Menhart Unciala for the text and Solemnis for display, printed damp on mould-made French rag paper using their classic 1846 Columbian handpress. The Allens hand-bound the edition in a binding cloth using a 15th-century Persian motif hand-blocked in Venice, Italy at the Fortuny Fabrics shop.
Our copy of is yet another donation from our friend Jerry Buff.
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