A Printer's Exquisite Corpse

A Printer's exquisite corpse / [organized by the Silver Buckle Press]
Spec. N7433.4 P74 1992 fol.
([Madison, Wis.] : Published by Silver Buckle Press, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 1992)
38 sheets : col. ill. ; 13 x 21 cm., in portfolio (55 x 23 cm.)

• Title from title sheet; statement of responsibility from colophon sheet.
• "Based on the game made popular by the Surrealists, this project combines the efforts of 34 book artist/letterpress printers from across the U.S.A., who designed and printed 100 copies of a quarter section of the Corpse ... 6,561 different figures can be created from the parts, making [this] an entertaining documentation of many of this country's innovative printers."-- Prospectus.
• Participating presses include Pamela Barrie [Hell Box Press], Gardyloo Press, Rebis Press, Iguana Press, Purgatory Pie Press, Moonkosh Press, Hermetic Press, Never Mind the Press, Black Rose Press, Bowne & Co. Stationers, Ragpicker Press, Shelley Hoyt Editions, Poltroon Press, Paradise Press, Salient Seedling Press, Peter Kruty Editions, Art Motel Press, Blue Moon Press, Independent Project Press, Potte Press, Jeanette McGrath, Penumbra Press, Lychnobite Press, Turkey Press, Cabbagehead Press, Hosanna Press, Ricochet Works, Hatch Show Print, Press of the Palace of the Governors, Mellanberry Press, Silver Buckle Press, Tatlin Books, Janus Press, and Emanon Press. Press, Tatlin Books, Janus Press, and Emanon Press.
• "This project was organized by the Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of historic printing equipment held within the U.W.-Madison Libraries ... 100 copies [60 for sale, Cf. prospectus]"--Colophon.
• Spec copy: No. 41; in cloth-covered drop-spine box with printed label; most sheets signed by their printers; prospectus laid in.