398 - Leonard Baskin - Anthony Hecht. *The Gehenna Florilegium*. Poems by Anthony Hecht. Woodcuts by Leonard Baskin. [Rockport], The Gehenna Press 1998. With 15 signed and numbered color woodcuts. Original half-leather binding with gilt spine in a slipcase (Claudia Cohen).

Leonard Baskin - Anthony Hecht. *The Gehenna Florilegium*. Poems by Anthony Hecht. Woodcuts by Leonard Baskin. [Rockport], The Gehenna Press 1998. With 15 signed and numbered color woodcuts. Original half-leather binding with gilt spine in a slipcase (Claudia Cohen). Call time: approx. 4:55 p.m. (schedule subject to change) One of 40 copies (total print run of 50). — Signed by the poet and artist in the colophon. - The book covers are lined with green paste-paper, corners in peach-colored morocco, gilded laurel ornaments, and peach-colored morocco inlay on the front cover; green paste-paper endpapers with matching gilded patterns. - One of Gehenna Press’s most magnificent prints, in which each of Hecht’s poems is accompanied by a colored floral woodcut. - Anthony Hecht (1923–2004), an American postwar poet and formalist, developed a unique poetic meter known as the “double dactyl.” One of his early works, “The Seven Deadly Sins,” was also created in collaboration with the engraver Leonard Baskin. 42.0 × 28.0 cm. [76] pages. English description: “Leonard Baskin was one of the greatest and most influential American book illustrators and designers of the twentieth century. Working predominantly in woodcut, wood engraving, and etching, he created a large body of publications through his Gehenna Press.” (Robert Flynn Johnson, in: LC)