Artifex: Leonard Baskin and the Gehenna Press

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“Of the making of books…”

“People like me, who care about printing,” Baskin once said, “constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.” Baskin’s passion for creating fine press editions led him to print a number of hard-to-find and previously unpublished texts. Gehenna Tracts and Gehenna Essays in Art were two projects that highlighted little-known and new texts on subjects Baskin held dear.