A21. The Story of Word Pictures

A21. Mark Lewis. The Story of Word Pictures. Santa Cruz, California: The Good Book Press, 1982.

11.5 x 10 cm (4 ½” x 4”), 14 pages, 200 copies.

Binding: Copies 1-25 are quarter-bound in brown calfskin and brown commercial paper. Copies 26-200 are bound in brown commercial paper over boards. Title on label on cover. Paper: Copies 1-25 white, handmade by Peter Thomas. Copies 26-200 white, commercial. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Hand set Goudy Thirty and Hadriano. Illustration: Linocut by Donna Thomas on cover based on a line drawing by Mark Lewis. Opening initial is a hand-colored linocut by Donna Thomas.

“Lewis was the storyteller at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire. He always began his sessions with this poem.”