signed first edition Broadside
1986 · [New York
by [Laughlin, James; Vanessa Jackson (artist)]
[New York: Grenfell Press], 1986. First Thus. Broadside. Fine. Jackson, Vanessa. Broadside, printed recto and verso, Approximately 10 x 16 inches. One poem facing one color woodcut print on each side, with "What the Pencil Writes" signed in pencil by Laughlin and facing print signed in pencil by Jackson. In English and French. Fine.
Two-sided leaf printed by the Grenfell Press during its production of THE HOUSE OF LIGHT, a 1986 collaboration between poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914-1997) and British painter and printmaker Vanessa Jackson (b. 1953). As with the book, the broadside is printed on Rives paper, the text is set in hand-set Monotype Poliphilus, and the prints are made from the original blocks. (Inventory #: 669)
Two-sided leaf printed by the Grenfell Press during its production of THE HOUSE OF LIGHT, a 1986 collaboration between poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914-1997) and British painter and printmaker Vanessa Jackson (b. 1953). As with the book, the broadside is printed on Rives paper, the text is set in hand-set Monotype Poliphilus, and the prints are made from the original blocks. (Inventory #: 669)