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DOW, ARTHUR WESLEY; and HUBBARD, EVERETT STANLEY. By Salt Marshes. 7 color woodcut illustrations plus title, colophon, endpaper, and head- and tailpiece vignettes. Thin small 8vo, original brown linen-backed boards with woodcut cover title and vignette, some rubbing with surface loss to spine ends, edges, and tips, mild browning to outside edges of covers; one small and slender stain to top of front pastedown, pages very slightly toned along edges, otherwise bright and clean. Ipswich, Massachusetts: Privately printed, 1908
number 45 of 200 copies of this sweet and elegant privately published work. "By Salt Marshes is Arthur Wesley Dow's tribute to the old North Shore town of Ipswich, where he was born and spent most of his life, and to his boyhood friend, Everett Stanley Hubbard. It is a collaboration somewhat in the spirit of Meteyard, Carman and Hovey in their Vagabondia books, though Hubbard was undoubtedly a lesser poet and Dow a greater artist. [It] is his masterpiece, and it is evident from the numerous sketches and proofs in the Ipswich Historical Society and the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities - some dating back as far as 1895 - that it was a labor of love. Infinite care and craftsmanship were expended on every detaill."--Finlay. Artists of the Book in Boston, 1890-1910. Dow was a master of color woodblock technique, "using as many as four or five different blocks, accurately registered, thinly inked to show the grain of the wood, and printed in subtle gradations of tone to achieve a luminosity that effectively evokes the quality of the light on the marshes"--ibid.
