The Inscriptions at Tor House and Hawk Tower.

Editorial: Imprenta Glorias, [Los Angeles], 1988

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No. 44 of 50 copies, signed by Stuart. Introduction by Ward Ritchie and signed by him in ink. With red printers' flowers used throughout and some ornaments of birds, butterflies printed in red and blue, line blocks of the areas of the house where the words were inscribed including a moveable flap on the 'Minstrel's Gallery'. Printed in Fabritius type in light blue, dark blue and red on Ingres Antique paper. The reproduced calligraphy of direct printed copies of Jeffers' own script. Oblong sq. 8vo., original ivory canvas with inset printed fleuron. Housed in the original ivory canvas Soldander box with inset cast paper design of the front door of Tor House by the book and paper artist Joseph D'Ambrosio. Extremely good. The imprint of Gloria Stuart, possibly best known for her role as the elderly Rose in the film Titanic. She began printing late in life, buying a Vandercook proof press and accumulating type including Bruce Rogers' Centaur type and Frederick Warde's Arrighi type. She was most enamoured by Rudolf Koch's Antiqua of which she acquired an almost complete range. She began printing broadsides but soon moved onto books, her first being Enishi. In Matrix vol. 8 Ward Ritchie describes her books as "ingenious in their concept and each one quite different". In her early life Gloria had lived in an artists' colony in Carmel and as Ritchie says, she began to revive some of her memories there in her projects for her press Imprenta Glorias. She was especially exercised by Robinson Jeffers who had lived in and wrote about the area, and his poetry had held great importance in her life. Jeffers had painstakingly built a stone house called 'Tor' as well as tower he called 'Hawk' on a point overlooking the coast, personally dragging up the boulders he used from the shore. On the beams and archways he painted or carved quotations which appealed to him for his wife and twin sons. Gloria Stuart gathered these together for this book which give an insight into Jeffers and his inspirations.…

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The Inscriptions at Tor House and Hawk Tower.
Autor
STUART, Gloria. RITCHIE, Ward. [JEFFERS, Robinson and Una]
Editorial
Imprenta Glorias, [Los Angeles]
Año de publicación
1988
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