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(Wagener, Richard - Editions Koch) The Fragments of Parmenides - deluxe copy with suite of 10 additional wood engravings signed by Richard Wagener Author: Parmenides Place Published: Berkeley Publisher: Editions Koch Date Published: 2003 Description: [50] pp. Translated by Robert Bringhurst with original Greek en face. With five wood engravings by Richard Wagener. Deluxe edition with additional suite of 10 wood engravings enclosed in Japanese silk-covered chemise. (Folio) 40.5x24 cm (16x9½"), bound by Daniel Kelm in full leather with blindstamped design after Wagener on cover, spine lettered in relief. Presented in publisher's Japanese silk-covered clamshell box with spine lettered in gilt on leather label. Copy R of 26 deluxe lettered copies. First Edition. Signed by Richard Wagener, Peter Koch and Robert Bringhurst at colophon, as issued. Each wood engraving in the extra suite is signed and lettered by Wagener. The text is composed of all twenty Greek fragments, varying in length from only a few words to 66 hexameters, of a poem composed by Parmenides almost 2,500 years ago in southern Italy. For this project, Peter Koch commissioned Dan Carr to create a new typeface that balanced the lyricism and movement of the handwritten poem and the formality of a carefully-made inscription: Parmenides Greek. The project manifests a perfect Greek tripod composed of Richard Wagener, Peter Koch, and Robert Bringhurst. Includes the 2 broadside specimen sheets for the typefaces (Diogenes Greek and Parmenides Greek) and the Key to the Specimen of the Parmenides Type. Prospectus included. Condition: Fine. Item#: 350977b Headline: Parmenides deluxe copy with Wagener suite