Multi-color letterpress typography pages, using different Futura types, with facing chine collé photogravures on old paper. The book has 20 pages on heavy rag paper and it features an extending 6-panel gatefold of a 3-color woodcut in the center.
The book measures 9 x 6 x 1 inches (23 x 15 x 2.5 cm) when closed, and 9 x 6 x 42 inches (23 x 15 x 106 cm) opened. Case binding with covers wrapped in hand-made paper, quarter-bound with Kraftex leather strips. Edition of only 12 copies, signed and numbered.
My artist books, broadsides, and loose-leaf editions are published in very small numbers, as low as five. All are hand-printed and hand-bound (in the case of books) by me, all are signed and numbered. While I am trying to be perfect, I am human, not a machine. Some variations in the editioned work are to be expected due to the processes, materials, and the artist’s change of mind. It is exactly what makes the work collectible: each piece is an original work of art. The pieces employ printmaking like original etchings, woodcuts, carborundum, screen prints, monotype, monoprint, and letterpress. Rarely is any part produced using digital methods, and if so it is clearly indicated, and only when no other options were available.
$1,450