Dal Vero

New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983. Fine in blue cloth boards with white paper spine and silver manuscript title lettering, in fine publisher's original linen clamshell box. Scarce.. Limited Edition. Quarto. One of 140 copies. Volume 1 in the Whitney Artist and Writers Series. SIGNED by the author and artist on the colophon page. The book opens with a beautiful bound-in intaglio print on thick deckled paper of a woman with a black cat, signed by Steinberg and numbered 86 of 140. Followed by spreads featuring drawings by Steinberg, with supporting text by Hollander on the opposite page inspired by the in the artworks. Printed on Mohawk superfine paper on an 1847 Washington handpress by Gabriel Rummonds at Ex Ophidia in Cottondate, Alabama. Intaglio print pulled by Maurice Payne in New York.