Portrait Photographs

Jonathan Williams

1979

76pp letterpress with thirty 4-colour offset inserts sewn soft binding with wrappers and paper slipcase.210 x 190.1800 numbered copies Coracle and 1800 numbered copies made by Coracle for Gnomon Press Frankfort Kentucky.As year by year the assembled company diminishes, these most tender of portraits in text and image by Jonathan Williams has made for one of the most mature books from Coracle, and one whose aroma is advanced by the last days of animal glue used in the binding. It goes down and ages like a bottle of Cote-Rotie of the same year. ISBN 0906630 00 2

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