Robert Mapplethorpe, Gun Blast, A Season In Hell, Photogravure

Condition: Pre-Owned

Photogravure on papier gravure Cartiere Enrico Magnani la main, mounted on papier Cartiere Enrico Magnani la main moul-press paper, as issued.

Paper Size: 11.5 x 7.75 inches; Photogravure size: 4.625 x 4.625 inches.

Excellent condition.

Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued.

Notes: From the folio, A Season in Hell, 1986.

Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; folio design and editing by Benjamin Shiff, New York; printed by Wingate Studio, Winchester, under the direction of Jon Goodman, Winchester, with the assistance of Peter Pettengill, and Robert Townsend, Winchester, 1986.

Excerpted from the folio, M examples of this edition have been printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress.

The text has been set in fourteen point monotype Perpetua at Out of Sorts Letterfoundery.

The design is by Benjamin Shiff.

The photogravure plates were made by Jon Goodman.

These plates were editioned at the studios of Jon Goodman, Peter Pettengill and Robert Townsend.

The paper used for the text of the book is a mould-made letterpress sheet; The photogravures were printed on a handmade etching paper.

Both papers have been made for this edition at Cartiere Enrico Magnani. This folio has been bound by and the slipcase made at the Jovonis Bookbindery.

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