The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, published by Even Hoshen, 2010. Hebrew and English.
The Gothic poem "The Raven", by the American poet and author Poe (1809-1849) is presented in this book in English and in Hebrew. The translation is the famous one by Zeev Jabotinsky and was first published in the book "Targumim" (Berlin, 1923) and is printed in the book as a tribute to the translator, seventy years after his decease. Printed in 66 signed and numbered copies, the copy presented is no. 18.
This is the thirteenth book of the series of translated books "Yoshpah", Hebrew text set in "Margalit" typeface and English text handset in Alt-Mediäval font on Bavaria-Bütten paper 200 gram.
Illustrated with black papercuts in the shape of ravens (on the two title pages and on the leaf dividing between the two texts). Illustrations by Ido Agassi who did all the typesetting, printing and binding (a full black artistic leather binding with inlaid leather medallions in a lighter shade of brown with ravens within them).In cloth covered slipcase. 13, [8], [13] pp, 33 cm.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.