File consists of 1 clothbound hardcover edition of Whale Sound: An Anthology of Poems about Whales and Dolphins, edited by Greg Gatenby, and 1 corresponding prospectus. The volume is housed in a clothbound clamshell box and printed on hand torn, deckle-edged paper using a flat-bed cylinder press. Illustrations inside the volume were made from zinc and copper engravings. The prospectus notes that all profits from the sale of the anthology will be donated to Greenpeace. This edition is signed by Gatenby.
The colophon for the volume provides further elaboration:
"Published, designed & produced at
Dreadnaught
24 Sussex Avenue Toronto Canada, from January to June 1977.
The type is monotype Cochin & Goudy Open;
the text paper handmade in France at the mill of Richard de Bas;
film & engravings for the illustrations by Bomac Batten;
the binding materials Holliston Sailcloth
& paper handmade by the printer.
Of an edition of
100 copies signed by the editor
this is number 66"
The prospectus lists the 56 poets and 30 artists who contributed to the anthology:
The Poets
Milton Acorn
Bert Almon
George Amabile
Margaret Atwood
bill bissett
George Bowering
Marilyn Bowering
C.M. Buckaway
Mick Burrs
Ken Cathers
Wayne Clifford
John Robert Colombo
David Day
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Lois Ellis
Robert Finch
Judith Fitzgerald
Pnina Gagnon
Eldon Garnet
Greg Gatenby
Gary Geddes
C.H. Gervais
Artie Gold
Elizabeth Gourlay
Tom Howe
Peter Huston
Marvyne Jenoff
Hans Jewinski
Terry Kelly
Jan Kemp
Travis Lane
Scott Lawrance
Irving Layton
Dorothy Livesay
Gwen MacEwen
Jay MacPherson
Robin Mathews
Seymour Mayne
Steve McCaffery
Kenneth McRobbie
Rona Murray
Susan Musgrave
Richard Outram
P.K. Page
Craig Powell
E.J. Pratt
Janis Rapoport
Joe Rosenblatt
Allan Safarik
Joseph Sherman
Peter Such
Andrew suknaski
Fraser Sutherland
Robert Sward
Tom Wayman
Phyllis Webb
The Artists
Erica Abt
Michaele Berman
David Campbell
Robert Daigneault
Ken Danby
Barbara Howard
Robert Jordan
William Kurelek
Les Levine
Naoko Matsubara
Tom McNeely
Betty Mochizuki
Suzanne Mogensen
Frieda Nelson
Toni Onley
Charles Pachter
Walter Redinger
Bill Reid
Joe Rosenthal
Bob Snider
Michael Snow
Ken Stampnick
Shizuye Takashima
Art Thompson
Harold Town
Tony Urquhart
Florence Vale
M. Vaughn-James
Susana Wald
Ludwig Zeller
The volume also includes lithographs, engravings, and drawings of whales and dolphins throughout history.
