Random Reports II / Barbara Henry

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Identifier: FA.B16.0437
Object type: Pamphlet bindings
Dimensions: 15.7 x 25.6 cm;6 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches
Creation dates: 2007
Also created by: Roni Gross
Inspired by: The New York Times
Printed by: Barbara Henry
Published by: Harsimus Press
Was created in: Jersey City
Pamphlet bound chapbook with dark gray flap fold wrappers, and hand stitched binding with rust colored thread; off center, exterior title plate and printed spine.

"Each poem was constructed out of randomly chosen words and phrases cut from the dated first section of The New York Times. The poems and the frontispiece wood engraving were made by the printer. 65 copies of this book were hand set in foundry and wood type and printed on a Vandercook Proof Press by Barbara Henry in Jersey City, New Jersey. Text printed from a polymer plate made with assistance from Roni Gross, poems were handset in foundry type from the Dale Guild and printed in an edition of 50 copies on a Vandercook Press by Barbara Henry in Jersey City. Central interior folio contains printed illustration entitled, "Names of the Dead". --Colophon.