The Complete Poems

1997

Special Collections PA4407 R8 A27 1997; Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership and to obtain permission for reproduction. If you believe you are the copyright owner of an item on this site, and we have not requested your permission, please contact us at special.collections@otago.ac.nz

Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press

Many owners of private presses around the world have readily taken to using the frontispiece in their limited edition hand-crafted publications. Jan and Crispin Elsted, owners of Barbarian Press in British Columbia, Canada, are no exception. Indeed, they make a point of publishing limited edition books that celebrate wood engravings as an art form. Here they have combined Robin Skelton’s translation of poems by Rufinus, fl. 390 AD, with delicate engravings by the Yukon-born Wesley W. Bates. It is no wonder that the Elsteds were awarded the Robert R. Reid Award in 2015 for extraordinary contributions to the book arts in Canada.