Colophon

Morton Rosengarten's portraits of the poets in The Lines of the Poet were drawn from life and with the collaboration of Marc St.Pierre, were printed from the lithographic stone. Marc St.Pierre pulled all the impressions. Those of D. G. Jones, Alden Nowlan and A. J. M. Smith were executed at Laval University in Quebec City; those of Margaret Atwood,Earle Birney,Leonard Cohen,Ralph Gustafson,Irving Layton, John Newlove, Michael Ondaatje, P. K. Page, Al Purdy, F. R. Scott, and Phyllis Webb were executed at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The creation of the lithographs took place between July 1979 and November 1980.130 copies of each were made and each has been signed and numbered by the artist in the sequence specified below, to which this colophon has been matched; each lithograph also carries the artist's chop. All other proofs and impressions of the lithographs were destroyed and the stones effaced.

The text of The Lines of the Poet has been hand set in 30 and 18 points Kennerley Old Style by Pierre Guillaume and printed by him on a Vandercook Hand Press at his atelier in Montreal.

The lithographs and the text have been printed on 150 lb natural white medium smooth laid paper, half cotton and half flax, which has been specially made for the book at the Papeterie St. Armand in Montreal, David Carruthers, proprietor.

The boxes which contain the work were made by Pierre Ouvrard at his atelier in Sainte-Paul-de-l'Ile-aux-Noix. In each copy of the The Lines of the Poet the Introduction has been signed by the editor, the Preface by the artist, and each poem by its author (with the exception of that by A. J. M. Smith, who died before the work was completed).

130 copies of the The Lines of the Poet have been made of which 100, numbered 1/100 to 100/100 are for the public. There is one bon a tirer copy; 11 Artist's Proof copies, numbered AP 1/11 to AP 11/11; and 18 hors de commerce copies,numbered HC 1/18 to HC 18/18, reserved for the poets and the other makers of the book.




NOTE : It proved impractical, due to the size of the pages (20 1/2 X 14 1/2), to reproduce the texts from the book for the Preface, the Introduction and the Colophon on the website.These were re-typed and are in Times New Roman Bold rather than the original Kennerley Old Style. Our apologies to Pierre Guillaume. The text of the poems opposite the portraits are in the original typeface as they are from photographs of a copy of the book.See Colophon.