Eternity. [He who binds to himself a loy]

1975. [San Francisco: Thomas Ingmire, 1975].

Oblong 12mo, [11]pp. With a hand-drawn gold initial letter on the cover and on the title-page. Original rust wrappers, fine.

§ Limited to "300" copies of which 40 were hand-bound and maybe 100 copies completed in all. Exceptionally scarce and beautiful, we have had one copy in the last 30 years. Ingmire here reproduces his calligraphic version of Blake's famous poem, found in the "Notebook" (1787-1818). Thomas Ingmire was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London. A vivid expression of the modern calligraphy movement, his work can be found in public and private collections around the world; it is the subject of Michael Gullick's Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire (1989) and codici 1: a teacher's notebook on modern calligraphy & lettering art (2003). His teaching experience and influence extends throughout the United States to Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong.