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Wharton Esherick's Illuminated and Illustrated Song of the Broad-Axe

By Walt Whitman

Wharton Esherick's Illuminated and Illustrated Song of the Broad-Axe( )
Author: The Wharton Esherick Museum,
ISBN:978-0-7643-3677-5
Publication Date:Mar 2011
Publisher:Schiffer Publishing, Limited
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $54.99
Book Description:

In 1922, Wharton Esherick showed a copy Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk, which he had illustrated with woodcut prints, to Harold Mason, owner of the Centaur Bookshop in Philadelphia. Impressed by what he saw, Mason asked Esherick to illustrate Walt Whitman's Song of the Broad-Axe, which Mason published in a limited edtion in 1924.Inspired by the woodcuts, Esherick created a hand-bound prototype book of Whitman's poem, using prints made directly from his blocks and hand-lettering it in...
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Book Details
Pages:48
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):21.59 x 27.94 x 22.098 cm
Book Weight:0.505 Kilograms



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