The Journals of Susanna Moodie

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unpaginated, pp. c. 100, color illustrations and text throughout. “Beginning in the mid-sixties, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter were enthusiastic collaborators in a unique art form, the livre d’artiste – the marriage of original graphic work with literary text. They worked together on five limited-edition handmade books, volumes of Atwood’s poetry with Pachter’s interpretive artwork. The culmination of their collaboration, the work that is considered their masterpiece, is ‘The Journals of Susanna Moodie.’ This popular edition is a faithful reproduction of the original hand-set, hand-printed version of a treasured Canadian classic. In her rending of Moodie’s chronicles of pioneer life, Margaret Atwood found the haunting themes that obsess us still. Charles Pachter’s vividly evocative images layer the poems with startling echoes and insights. Their work is accompanied here by a new introductory memoir by Pachter and a foreword by David Staines, who pays homage to Atwood, Pachter, and Moodie and their central places in Canadian art and literature.” no slipcase

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ISBN 155199013X
ISBN13 9781551990132
Original Title The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Published Date 1997
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition Very good
Binding Hardcover
Size 4to
Place of Publication Toronto
Edition First edition
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unpaginated, pp. c. 100, color illustrations and text throughout. “Beginning in the mid-sixties, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter were enthusiastic collaborators in a unique art form, the livre d’artiste – the marriage of original graphic work with literary text. They worked together on five limited-edition handmade books, volumes of Atwood’s poetry with Pachter’s interpretive artwork. The culmination of their collaboration, the work that is considered their masterpiece, is ‘The Journals of Susanna Moodie.’ This popular edition is a faithful reproduction of the original hand-set, hand-printed version of a treasured Canadian classic. In her rending of Moodie’s chronicles of pioneer life, Margaret Atwood found the haunting themes that obsess us still. Charles Pachter’s vividly evocative images layer the poems with startling echoes and insights. Their work is accompanied here by a new introductory memoir by Pachter and a foreword by David Staines, who pays homage to Atwood, Pachter, and Moodie and their central places in Canadian art and literature.” no slipcase

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Weight 1.2 kg