Ninety-four proverbial expressions & select sentences. . .

Honolulu, HI: Mission Houses Museum & Manoa Press, 1995. 1st edition limited to 90. Hardcover. Mission Houses Museum & Manoa Press, 1995. 7.25 x 10.25 in. 20 pages, unpaginated, printed on handmade paper. Tipped-in photogravure frontispiece., 3 tipped-in color illustrations. Simulated half-calf over marbled boards, printed title label on front cover,

-- Signed & numbered on colophon leaf in pencil & ink. First edition, No. 20 of 90M, one of only 35 with the frontipiece. Signed & numbered on the colophon (see photo)

Occasional light foxing on the pages. Stronger foxing on the endpapers. Some light shelf wear to the cover edges, Some foxing and rubbing to the title label. Still a nice copy of this very rare book.

The book is based on 49 pages of the original Whitney (1793-1845) manuscript consisting of a collection of Hawaiian olelo no'eau or "Proverbial Expressions and Select Sentences." Originally appended to his early Hawaiian word list for instructing Hawaiian children and probably written around 1823-1824 on Chinese grass paper, this manuscript was written before the adoption of a uniform spelling system in 1826. Rumford (b. 1948) handmade the paper on screens made from driftwood collected on Ala Moana beach, handset the type, and then printed on the replica wooden Ramage Press at the Mission Houses Museum in Honolulu. Thirty-five of the copies were issued with a photogravure made by Rumford from a portrait of Samuel Whitney painted by Samuel F. B. Morse, and were marked with a letter "M." Worldcat locates 1 copy at Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa.
-- Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade. -- The book is based on 49 pages of the original Whitney (1793-1845) manuscript consisting of a collection of Hawaiian olelo no'eau or "Proverbial Expressions and Select Sentences." Originally appended to his early Hawaiian word list for instructing Hawaiian children and probably written around 1823-1824 on Chinese grass paper, this manuscript was written before the adoption of a uniform spelling system in 1826. Rumford (b. 1948) handmade the paper on screens made from driftwood collected on Ala Moana beach, handset the type, and then printed on the replica wooden Ramage Press at the Mission Houses Museum in Honolulu. Thirty-five of the copies were issued with a photogravure made by Rumford from a portrait of Samuel Whitney painted by Samuel F. B. Morse, and were marked with a letter "M." Worldcat locates 1 copy at Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa.
-- Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade.