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. Nothing is produced using digital reproduction methods.
$1,450