How Prints Are Made

Manchester, Vermont: Southern Vermont Art Center, 1971. Softcover. Fine internally but with some fading to spine area and light age toning to top of covers.. Textured, pale grey wraps with string tie binding. Unpaginated with 22 pp. and 5 bw illustrations. Sections on woodcuts, metal engravings, drypoint, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, wood engraving, lithograph, and serigraph. Includes an introduction which incorporates the following information: "This booklet was designed by Elfriede Abbe and hand set in Perpetua type with the assistance of Pamela Fontana and Carleton Howe. One hundred twenty-five copies on Rives paper were printed by leterpress in the print shop of the Southern Vermont Art Center." Elfriede Abbe (d. 2012) was a renowned Vermont artist whose sculptural and graphic works are in prestigious places such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens Library (London), National Library of Australia, McGill University (Montreal), Herzog August Bibliothek (Germany), Cornell University, the Vermont Statehouse, and more. Carleton Howe was a President of the SVAC, and Pamela Fontana was a staff member.