Description
Octavo. [8], 72, [4] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 96 of 200 copies bound in boards and signed by Taylor; an additional 300 copies were issued unsigned in wrappers. Blue cloth with printed paper title label on the spine; dust jacket. Top corners are a trifle bumped, else a very fresh copy in a fairly clean dust jacket which is prone to soiling. Gray Zeitz studied printing under Carolyn Reading Hammer at the King Library Press until 1974. He moved up the road to Monterey, KY and founded the Larkspur Press that same year. Work commenced on Taylor's Bluegrass, issued the following year. In fact, it was with type given him by Hammer that Zeitz started this press. Bluegrass was a first: it was Taylor's first book, but also the Larkspur Press's first. Taylor would go on to write many more (several printed by Zeitz) and become a Poet Laureate of Kentucky. A remarkable book that captures both the beginnings of two significant careers, but also it speaks to the legacy of Carolyn Reading Hammer in the print community. Despite a sizable limitation, it remains uncommon in commerce. Fox p. 154; Keyes 1.
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