Oct 10, 2018 Like gold to airy thinness beat

“Our two souls, therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.”
— John Donne, from “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”

John Donne: a fragment
Robin Price
Los Angeles: Robin Price, Publisher, 1993
N7433.4 P753 J6 1993

Letterpress from handset Deepdene italic and Garmond in copper and black. Fern illustration from polymer plate. Multi-color monoprint on Penshurst handmade paper from the Barcham Green mill, wrapped around two-ply museum board. Accordion-fold structure. Edition of thirty-five copies.

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