TERN PRESS. MOORE, Thomas. PARRY, Nicholas. ~ Five Odes of Anacreon.
Translated into English by Thomas Moore and first published in 1800. No. 8 of 75 copies. 5 copper etchings by Nicholas Parry. Set in 18 point Caslon and printed in black and ochre on Zercall paper. Sq. 4to., original beige buckram backed marbled paper covered boards, printed spine label. A very good copy, booklabel to front pastedown.
A selection of the Greek poet Anacreon’s gently erotic odes, suitably illustrated.
Begun in 1973 in Shropshire by Nicholas and Mary Parry. In Matrix 5 Nicholas Parry outlined the aims of this very English press: “to relate each subject to a relative set of materials. To think of the book as an overall work of art, rather like an opera with a body (stage – props – paper – binding), intellect (thoughts – words – libretto), and feelings (music – colour – prints), to try, as in all art, to produce a form that lives and breathes...our books are not conceived, designed, produced through process, but are perceived, arranged and produced through craft”.