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(VINCENT FITZ GERALD & CO.) Ibsen, Henrik. Poems. Translated by Michael Feingold. One 4-panel folding color lithograph and 5 original color engravings by Neil Welliver. 4to, custom binding by Peter Geraty, in blue goatskin, with front and rear boards decorated with white and grey onlays outlined in gold (artistically extending beyond cover edges), and inlaid diagonal section of suede to mimic a sun ray, stamp-signed along rear turn-in; silk moiré endpapers; grey linen clamshell box lined in velvet formed to shape of book, gilt-lettered green leather spine label. New York, 1987
number 45 of 75 copies signed by feingold and welliver (the total edition). In a lavish binding by Peter Geraty of Praxis Bindery, Easthampton, Maine, in 1989. A beautiful marriage of Welliver's images to Ibsen's early poetry, written before he became better known for his dramatic writing.
