Upper Chesapeake Book Arts
Visit to Special Collections with Rebecca Johnson Melvin
17 April 2024
The selections below are grouped in three sections: Decorative Papers, An Early Printed Book, and Artists’ Books.
Many of the items pulled were accordion books (related to our current group project) and others were selected with some of our UCBA member interests in mind (miniature books, tooled leather, collage, needlework, photography, printing processes, etc.).
Artists of interest across these selections include Julie Chen (Flying Fish Press, CA), Maria Pisano (Memory Press, NJ), Claire Van Vliet (Janus Press, VT), Claudia Cohen (bookbinder, WA), Nedim Sönmez (ebru [Turkish marbling], Germany), Peter and Donna Thomas (paper +, CA), Mary McCarthy (MA), Peter Koch (Peter Koch, Printer, CA), Susan King (Paradise Press, CA), James Walsh (through Granary Books, NY), Natalia Zapella (Brazil), Ken Campbell (Broken Rules, UK), Fred Hagstrom (Carleton College, MN).
Several of these artists had residencies at the Women’s Studio Workshop (NY). UD Special Collections has a comprehensive collection of the work of WSW, which you can locate through DELCAT (advanced search, limit to Special Collections, keyword=Womens Studio Workshop).
Descriptive notes, many from colophons, are included in this bibliography and DELCAT links are provided for additional information, including call numbers if you’d like to visit Special Collections to see anything again, or more work by an artist of interest to you. Please contact your friendly librarian Rebecca Johnson Melvin if you would like help or have other questions.
LRJM@udel.edu
DECORATIVE PAPERS
Bourbeau, David., et al. A Showing of Nineteen Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley : With Brief Biographies of Their Makers and an Introduction. [Deluxe ed.], Catawba, 2011. https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101006621970 7701
"Set in Hoefler and Frere-Jones's Mercury types. Three hundred copies printed at Capitol Offset.
Design and typography by Michael Russem."--Colophon
Paste papers by Carol J. Blinn, David P. Bourbeau, Amy Borezo, Meredith Broberg, Claudia Cohen, Sarah Creighton, Babette Gehnrich, Daniel Gehnrich, Peter Geraty, Stephanie Gibbs, Elisabeth Hyder, Sami Keats, Daniel E. Kelm, Kylin Lee, Amy Morris Pickens, Julia Leete Rabin, Mark Tomlinson, Lisa van Pelt, and Arno Werner.
Introduction written by David Bourbeau in 2005. Biographies supplied by the paste papermakers.
"Arno Werner's paste paper, from the collection of Carol J. Blinn, was reproduced at Stinehour Editions."--Printed on reproduction of paste paper Deluxe edition of 20 copies, consisting of booklet housed in a cloth-covered clam shell case (by Barbara B. Blumenthal) with 19 matted paste papers, identified by the maker's name.
"5/20"--Colophon of booklet. Paper label on spine of clam shell case.
Frigge, Karli. The Magic of Marbling. Edited by Sidney E. Berger, Translated by Erik Zuurbier, Karli Frigge, 2020. https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100016920970 7701
Limited to 110 numbered copies. Translation by Erik Zuurbier.
"The marble papers, text and drawings for this book have been made by me. The translation was made by windsinger Erik Zuurbier, Corrected by Sidney Berger, who is always seeking the
companionship of beautiful papers. Also the title was invented by him. The typogra[p]hical
layout has been provided by the passionate paper collector Willie Bosch. He used the fonts
JhengHei UI, the Liu Jian Mao Cao and the open capitals Medici. The books are printed by Rogier
Overman on paper Bio Top 3 next 200 gr. The chemist from page 60 who invented the potash
paste wants to remain anonymous. The written text on page 32 is by Annelin Pistorius. After this
I started binding the books, but because I am old, I got help from Steintje de Valk, Hanne Mahler
and Elly Bos, who worked on the books with the same dedication and care."--Colophon
"This is copy number: 19."--Final page. In slipcase as issued.
Artist's autograph copy, signed and numbered on final page.
Graham, Rigby. Holt Mill Papers. Peter and Donna Thomas, 1994.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100267547970
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"There are fifty copies of this book. Each contains two samples of paper made at the Holt Mill in
1958. Holt Mill Papers was handset in Centaur types, letterpress printed and handbound by
Peter and Donna Thomas with the assistance of Izak Bovee. The paper was handmade in Santa
Cruz, using cotton rag and a few other fibers ... This is copy number 38"--Colophon.
"The book is bound using a Coptic binding with handmade paper boards, created by John
Babcock, in place of the traditional wooden covers. The special copies, numbered one through
ten, are housed in a wooden slipcase and each has a unique thread picture made by Donna
Thomas, signed with thread initials, so that no one will think John Mason produced
it"--Colophon.
Autographed on the colophon by Rigby Graham, Peter and Donna Thomas, and John Babcock.
Morris, Henry. Roller-Printed Paste Papers for Bookbinding. Bird & Bull Press, 1975.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101065163970
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Colophon: "Approximately 215 copies of this book have been printed in November, 1974 at the
Bird & Bull Press at North Hills, Pa. The text is set in Centaur and Codex types and printed on
Hodgkinson hand made B & B paper. All of the paste paper was made at the Press and the
binding was done by Edward G. Parrot II at Hancock, Maine ..." First leaf blank. Full vellum
binding with gilt-ruled edges and gilt top edge.
"Approximately 215 copies. This is copy number 158."
Schmab. Spachtel-papiere : album, ca. 1915. 1915.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101728506970
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An album of original paste paper samples with holograph instructions and descriptions, some
mounted. Cover title. Most plates bound at the center.
Sönmez, Nedim. A Collection of Historical Decorated Papers. [Nedim Sönmez], 2021.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100043988970
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Issued in case; wrapped in piece of green velvet
84 decorated papers samples are mounted to each page after 12 pages of text
"An accordion book with eighty four historical decorated paper samples from 18th, 19th and
20th centuries 'with paper names in English and German'."--Title page.
"[...] the second volume in a three-part series of accodion books. The first volume of the series:
Miniatur Flowers in Marbling [...]. The third volume in the series is devoted to a flower: The
History of the Tulip [...] with examples by Nedim Sönmez."--Page facing title page.
As issued in box covered in marbled paper, with title mounted on cover ; with piece of green
velvet.
"One of an edition of 30. This is number 20."--Colophon.
Author's autograph copy, signed and numbered on colophon.
EARLY PRINTED BOOK
Grapaldi, Francisco Mario, et al. Francisci Marii Grapaldi poetae laureati De partibus aedium :
addita modo verborum explicatione quae in eodem libro continentur opus Sane elegans &
eruditum tum propter multiugam variarum rerum : lectionem cu[m] propter M. Vitruuii &
Cornelii Celsi emaculatas dictiones quae apud ipsos vel me[n]dosae vel obscurae videba[n]tur.
[Printed by Octaviano Salado and Francesco Ugoleto for Antonio Quintiani], 1516.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101095787970
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Genre:
Early works to 1800
Terms and phrases
Early works
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Dictionaries
Recasing (Binding)
Paper bindings (Binding)
Marbled papers (Binding)
Chainlines (Paper)
Pagination errors (Printing)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Wormholes
ARTISTS’ BOOKS
Boland, Eavan, et al. Quarantine. Pacific Editions, 2011.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100994523970
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Accordion folded.
"Quarantine has been made as an accordion book in a limited edition of forty-two copies in the
spring and summer of 2011. The images are monotypes of bundled twigs that have been
printed as high-resolution digital prints with additional pastel finishing. The twigs in the
centerfold of the accordion are from bay and fir trees in the hills above Stinson Beach,
California. The text is 12 point Palatino and has been printed letterpress by JR Press, San
Francisco, on BFK Rives. The black pages are Stonehenge and have been hand-painted with
acrylic for the two pages at the center of the accordion. The box was cut on a Gunnar 3001
Cutter at Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California and the board covers have been made by John
DeMerritt in Emeryville, California. The book design and images are by Charles Hobson who
assembled the book and the boxes with the assistance of Alice Shaw."--Colophon.
"Eavan Boland's poem 'Quarantine' appeared in Against love poetry (New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, Inc., 2001) and is printed here with her kind permission ..."--Colophon.
Bound in digital print boards with a digital print dust jacket. Issued in a black drop-front box
with lid. "4/42"--Colophon.
Author and artist's autograph copy.
Cain, Paloma., et al. Grasshopper. Edition Reese, 2000.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100822979970
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"The Book of Change is an on-going project initiated by Harry and Sandra Reese in 1996, in
which hexagrams of the ancient Chinese oracle, The I Ching, or Book of Changes, which
customarily are revealed by tossing three coins at a time, instead are determined by the finding
of coins on city streets and sidewalks. This collaborative project - featuring the monotypes of
Paloma Cain and Jonathan Cecil - is the third in this series"--P. [5].
Printed on double leaves.
Issued in a clamshell case with printed paper label on spine.
Bound in boards with penny embedded in front cover; printed paper label on spine.
"Binding by Sandra Liddell Reese. There are 30 copies in this edition, of which 25 are for sale.
[This is copy] 14/25"--Colophon.
Campbell, Ken. Broken Rules and Double Crosses. [Ken Campbell], 1984.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101062108970
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"... a book by Ken Campbell, written, designed and printed by him during his Brinkley Fellowship
in the Department of Graphic Design of the Norwich School of Art 1983-84. This copy is
numbered 35/50"--Colophon.
Printed on double folded leaves in traditional Oriental forma stab bindingt.
Wrapped in a swath of decorated fabric and issued in a clamshell box measuring 48 cm.
Printed wrappers. Artist's autograph copy.
Carman, Carissa, and Gretchen Hooker. Good Eats : Sit down, Relax & Enjoy : It’s the Cook’s
Choice : Selections from an Appetizing Array of Well-Seasoned Moments and Finely Diced Tales.
[Women’s Studio Workshop], 2005.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101396176970
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Other titles: Sit down, relax & enjoy. It's the cook's choice. Selections from an appetizing array
of well-seasoned moments and finely diced tales
"Good Eats is the result of a collaboration between Carissa Carman & Gretchen Hooker. The
book was designed and printed at the Women's Studio Workshop ... screen printed on Mohawk
Superfine 160 lb. paper using text from found sources ... This is copy 59/80"--Colophon.
Art work on front of each card, a recipe on verso.
Colophon in bottom side of red cloth-covered four-fold box.
Chen, Julie, and Sandy Tilcock. Listening. Flying Fish Press, 1992.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100288500970
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"Listening was designed and printed by Julie Chen in an edition of 75 copies. Papers used
include Fabriano Ingres Heavyweight and handmade sheets from the St.-Armand paper mill.
Typefaces used include Copperplate Gothic and Adobe Garamond ... The boxes were made by
Sandy Tilcock"--Colophon.
Signed and numbered by author. "12/75"--P. [32].
Each leaf consists of 2 layered paper boards attached to continuous heavy paper strip;
accordion-style; 2 loops attached to front and back covers for use with accompanying ties;
paper label on front cover.
In box (11 x 13 cm.), closed with 3-fold flap, 3rd flap is magnetic; mounted pocket on inside
spine with 2 ribbon and button ties; mounted paper tuck wrapper contains, 1 mounted leaf
(folded to form 7 leaves) of instructions for making headdresses with book, and the colophon;
paper labels on front cover and spine.
Harris, Erica. The Midwestern Book of the Dead. [Women’s Studio Workshop?], 2005.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101489742970
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"This book is a memorial of lost and found photographs. The words read like a nursery rhyme,
creating a familiar environment for the reader to ponder more disconcerting questions, such as:
what happens to the memory and to the image of us after we die and how are those images
reincarnated?"--Women's Studio Workshop WWW site, last viewed Jan. 18, 2007.
Title also in Braille on verso of leaf [1].
"Made possible by a grant from the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New
York"--Colophon.
"This book was silkscreen & letterpress printed ... this is book no. 25 of 50 copies"--Colophon.
Accordion folded, mounted onto p. [2] and [3] of cover. Artist's autograph copy.
Hicks, Candace. Napoleon’s Wallpaper. Candace Hicks, 2014.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101886938970
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One-of-a-kind, embroidered and hand-sewn accordion book by Candace Hicks. Text is
hand-sewn in black floss; page lines are machine-sewn in light blue thread. External cover
embroidered with green floss, interior fleur de lis pattern in light blue thread.
"Napoleon's wallpaper is a unique book from Hicks' Common Threads series: a variant series of
hand-embroidered canvas books, copying the form and design of dime-store 'composition'
books. The books themselves, self-consciously hand-made objects, are a record of coincidental
occurrences generally gleaned from reading or mundane events. The use of embroidery thread
allows for the production of the text and image with the same mark and material, to make the
text, image and substance of the book inseparable. Napoleon's wallpaper departs from the
series in both observations and its physical form. The hand sewn accordion book, which spans
10 feet when fully extended, highlights small differences between recurring phrases and ideas
in what the artist is reading. A special emphasis on whether the arsenic in Napoleon's green
wallpaper contributed to his death carries through to a detailed recurring fleur de lis pattern
embroidered on the interior and covers of the book. On the back side of the hand-sewn
narrative, Hicks' distinctive pale blue quasi-mathematical embroidery lines arc, loop and
expand, racing to connect the book's end back to its beginning." Description from Booklyn
Artists Alliance website,
http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1624, viewed 7/31/2015
Hiebert, Helen, et al. Interluceo. Illustrated by Béatrice Coron, Helen Hiebert Studio, 2015.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101877244970
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"Illustrated with 7 hand-cut paper illustrations (translucent abaca paper in hues of rainbow) that
portray the mysteries of life: a baby in the womb, a couple, a child, a child gaining strength and
running to embrace life, the building of a home (the pentagonal shape), exploring the world
and, finally, spiritual contemplation. Seven white handmade cotton/abaca papers feature seven
intricate geometric watermarks which relate to the numbers one to seven and their
corresponding shapes: point, line, triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, septagon"--Artist's
website.
"This book derives from my eternal interest in geometry and light. The watermarking technique
gave me the method for melding these fascinations, and the book form provides the structure
for expanding on these ideas"--Colophon.
An edition of 25. Hiebert's autograph copy. "#13."
Honda, Stan, and Fred Hagstrom. When I First Arrived in Baghdad. Strong Silent Type Press,
2011.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100990868970
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Bound in stainless steel covers with wire edge binding. Images and text printed in silkscreen;
Futura font.
"This book is a collaboration between Fred Hagstrom and Stan Honda, a photographer for
Agence France Presse."--Colophon.
"Copy 3 of 35."--Colophon. Book designer's autograph copy, signed and numbered on colophon.
Kaldewey, Gunnar A., and Christian Zwang. Books as Art : A Lecture. G.A. Kaldewey, 1990.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100218158970
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"20 copies on white paper and 20 copies on multicolor paper, made at the Kaldewey Press in
Poestenkill, New York ..."--Colophon. This copy on colored paper; signed by the
author/illustrator in pencil.
"1990, Getty Center, Los Angeles (Jan), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Apr), Galleri Aktuell Kunst,
Oslo (Sep), Museum of Art, Baltimore (Nov), Harvard University (Dec)."
"Printed by Gunnar A. Kaldewey ... in Los Angeles"--Colophon.
"Kaldewey Press Volume 8"--Colophon.
Text printed in black, red, and green.
Includes blank folded sheets of white handmade paper at beginning and end, and 2 blank
sheets (4 leaves) of iridescent plastic, not counted in collation.
Illustrations: 8 prints from 2 plates : etching, blue or green ; plate mark 2 cm. x 20-27 cm. (4)
and 3 cm. x 19-27 cm. (4). Each print on 2 conjugate leaves, with one side of print on edge of
one page (3 sides of plate mark visible).
Binding: Publisher's quarter green morocco and ebony wood boards, iridescent plastic label on
cover; issued in a case covered with snakeskin-patterned embossed paper, measuring 27 cm.
Col. port. of the artist with some of his books, and a prospectus, laid in.
King, Susan Elizabeth, and Jean Gabriel. Adloff. Say, See, Bone : Lessonsfrom [Sic] French.
Paradise Press, 1988.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101377247970
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Title on 3 successive leaves.
Text consists of prose pieces by King, poems in French by Adloff and King's translation of Adloff's
poems; letterpress translations, and corrections and comments printed as handwriting, appear
on Japanese paper as overlays.
"Designed and letterpress printed in an edition of 125 copies by Susan E. King at Paradise
Press."--Prospectus
"The coptic binding was done by hand by Shelley Hoyt."--Colophon. Prospectus laid in.
Kuznicki, Philip., and Peter Rutledge. Koch. Alphabet Book. Peter Koch, 1991.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100256747970
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"An edition of 126 ... Copies numbered 1-26 include one of the original papercut letters in its
own folder and slipcased"--Colophon.
Paper label on front cover. Printed on doubled folded leaves, tied at spine.
"... The remaining copies are numbered 27 through 126. Paste papers & binding by the artist.
Peter Koch, Printer, Berkeley 1991. [No.] 32"--Colophon.
Artist's autograph copy.
Larsen, Adam Ned. Cricket Funeral. Arthouse Press & the Flying Roller Press, Wichita State
University, 1997.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100467237970
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"This little book was created ... in an edition of 20. 17/20"--Colophon.
Accordian-folded. Author's autograph copy.
Lavater, Warja. Blanche Neige : une imagerie d’après le conte. Adrien Maeght Éditeur, 1974.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101964035970
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An abstract art version of the fairy tale, in which Snow White is represented by a dot with a pink
nucleus, the evil queen by an acid green dot with a black nucleus, the dwarves by red diamonds,
the prince by a blue dot, and the apple by concentric circles of green, yellow and red around a
black nucleus.
"Les lithographies dessinées par l'artiste ont été tirées sur les presses des ateliers Arte Adrien
Maeght, Paris"--Colophon.
Accordion folding book (on a strip 16 x 458 cm. fold. to 16 x 11 cm.).
Explanation of symbols used in the ill. on p. [1-2] (in English, French and German).
Issued in a clear plastic slipcase with two holes punched on the spine.
Lavater, Warja, and Charles Perrault. La fable du Hasard. Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1968.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101894744970
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Cover title. A retelling of Charles Perrault's La fable du Hasard in a pictographic form, on an
accordion-folded sheet printed on one side and attached to boards at each end. Issued in case.
"Cet ouvrage est edité par Adrien Maeght Editeur, 42 rue du Bac, Paris VII"--Back cover.
"Les lithographies sur papier Velin son tirées sur les presses des Ateliers Arte, Paris"--Back cover.
Luck, Barbara, et al. How Big Is Home? : Poems and Images. Janus Press, 2020.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99102073997940
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Includes 4 fold-out plates.
"The photographs, ink knife images, and collages were digitally prepared for printing by Fletcher
Manley and have been printed with an Epson SureColor P600 using UltraChrome HD inks on
Strathmore Cotton and Gruppo Cordenon Canletto papers. The text was set in Gill Sans, with
polymer plates made by Boxcar Press and printed on Canaletto paper by Andrew Miller-Brown
on a Vandercook SP15; the cover is Canal paper made by St Armand Papeterie. Binding was
accomplished by Amber Holden, Nancy Southworth and Linda Lembke. This edition is limited to
one hundred and twenty copies."--Colophon
Printed in black and red. Issued in dark gray cardboard slipcase with printed paper spine label.
Author's signed presentation copy, inscribed on colophon: "for The University of Delaware."
McCarthy, Mary. Autumn. Mary McCarthy, 2015.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101891973970
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20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 12 x 11 cm
"Blue/gold Japanese cloth over binders board, drum leaf binding 20 pages of Rives BFK paper.
Images are Polaroid lifts of a field with dormant trees, gouache and paper collage. Text is
printed in black on brown paper, 12 pt Bradley Hand IT folt with an Epson 2200
printer."--Colophon
Issued in dark blue cloth covered box. Date from colophon.
McCarthy, Mary. [Making Connections]. [Mary McCarthy], 1991.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101849772970
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Unique artist's book issued in green-gold fabric covered clamshell box.
Eight panel accordion fold with attached signature at each end. Collages on one side of the
opened book, gold cloth on the back. Attached signatures contain mounted pages of text.
"All pages are binders board; the exterior of the accordion is covered in Japanese gold cloth, the
interior is a gold Lokta. The exterior of the attached signature is Lucky Sea foam Green Chinese
cloth, the interior is a Yusen Diamond pattern collage together. The end signatures have the text
printed on heavy weight cream parchment in dark blue by Epson printer, Script MT
Bold"--Artist's website: (http://www.marymccarthybooks.com/second/unique/making.html,
viewed November 9, 2015).
Colophon: "Parables from Stories of the spirit, stories if [sic] the heart, ed.: C. Feldman & J.
Kornfield; pub: Harper Collins 1991."
McCartney, Paula. Bird Watching. [Paula McCartney and Women’s Studio Workshop], 2006.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101516482970
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"Additional support was provided by the Minnesota Center for Books Arts, Minneapolis,
MN"--Colophon.
"Comprised of twelve chromogenic photographs mounted on Rising Stonehenge 100% cotton
paper. The printed text is in Souvenir Lt BT and the written text is the artist's handwriting on
Zerkall Nideggen sand paper, and the endsheets are printed on Canson Mi-Teintes flannel gray
paper. The book is covered in olive and brown Iris bookcloth"--Colophon.
"Edition 4 of 40"--Colophon. Includes "Field notes" (3 items in pocket).
Artist's autograph copy.
Paschkis, Julie, and Claudia Cohen. Alphababble. Two Ponds Press, 2021.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100045623970
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Imprint date supplied by the publisher.
"Seattle."--Colophon.
Edition limited to 24 copies for sale and 6 hors de commerce.
"With a dip pen & black ink Julie Paschkis created drawings, then printed them digitally using
permanent ink on Rives BFK paper. Every page includes hand coloring & calligraphy. Each book is
unique with different words & colors. The edition was bound by Claudia Cohen."--Colophon.
"[...] the edition comprises 24 copies for sale [...] #9."--Colophon.
Artist and binder's autograph copy, signed on colophon.
Pisano, Maria G., and Michael. Pisano. Colors of Memory. Memory Press, 2014.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101214335970
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"Primavera, Estate, Autunno and Inverno, with their accompanying poems, resonate with
patterns that span one's lifetime alongside the natural patterns of the seasons."--Colophon
"A limited edition artist book designed, printed and bound by the artist, Maria G. Pisano. All
poems are written by the artist with the exception of Primavera, a haiku written by Michael
Pisano. The four accordion books are relief printed from collagraph and laser cut woodblocks
plates on Rives BFK, the box in cherry wood, was made by Paul Castellana. The work was hand
printed on a Charles Brand etching press."--Colophon
Limited edition of ten. Housed in a cherry wood box.
Author's autograph copy, signed in the general colophon, and in the colophon of each individual accordion book.
Pisano, Maria G., and Charles Dickens. O-Livre Twist : In a New and Special Adapted Version.
Open miniature edition., Memory Press, 2001.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99101322829970
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"A children's copy of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist was recycled and made into pulp. The paper
was not fully macerated, wanting to retain some of the original words and images. Once
hydrated, sheets were formed in 3 1/4 " x 4 1/4" sizes. When dried, since the paper was
industrial newsprint, it was strengthened with acrylic matte finish"--Label inside accompanying
preservation box.
A portion of the spine of the recycled book is mounted atop a stack of 9 recycled sheets
(described above) as well as a title strip, the whole held together at the center by a screw and
wing nut.
Van Vliet, Claire, et al. Lilac Wind : Poems by W.R. Johnson on a Pulp Painting Made by Claire
Van Vliet with Kathryn Clark. Janus Press, 1983.
https://delcat.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UDEL_INST/ouhitb/alma99100377385970
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Blue sheet, cut in the shape of clouds, stored in a solander box covered in lilac woven cloth.
bound in a box covered in dark plum cloth from Japan with pale grey silky cloth inside and a
purple calf label on the spine with silver lettering.
"Poems by W.R. Johnson on a pulp painting made by Claire Van Vliet with Kathryn Clark at
Twinrocker Handmade Paper Mill in Brookston, Indiana & printed and bound in 1983 at The
Janus Press in Newark, Vermont. Of one hundred and fifty copies this is..."--Colophon.
"Of one hundred and fifty copies this is 82" signed: Claire Van Vliet.
Issued in a box, measuring 34 cm.
Walsh, James, et al. The Arctic Plants of New York City. Granary Books, 2015.
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" 'This book was sparked by a simple thought-I wonder if there are any plants that grow in both
the Arctic and New York City? There are quite a few, as it turns out, and I embarked on a project
of discovering the Arctic by staying close to home and paying particular attention to the libraries
and land around me, searching for whatever Arctic plants I could find here.' The Arctic plants of
New York City combines personal letters, poetry, prose essay, scholarly research, botanical
exploration, and artistic investigation, and ranges from the Doctrine of Signatures to the sleep
of plants, and from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Muir on mental travel to Giacomo Leopardi
and Charles Baudelaire on the necessity of illusion for art and life. Interspersed throughout the
book are a number of two-page spreads that focus on a single plant ... with a mounted botanical
specimen of that plant surrounded by texts drawn from earlier writers on botany and set in
verse, creating a field of word-objects interacting with plant-objects. The letters that open the
book lead into a prose essay that touches on the souls of plants, their use in medicine and as
spurs to mental travel, their transience, their migrations, their meaning ... [includes] a
reproduction of the index from Nicholas Polunin's Circumpolar Arctic flora (1959), in which the
author has marked in red pen the eighty-eight Arctic plants that occur in New York City. Written,
designed, and printed letterpress by James Walsh, with eighteen botanical specimens pressed
and mounted by the author. Bound by Daniel Kelm at Wide Awake Garage ... an edition of 40
copies, of which 34 are for sale."--Publisher's website.
Colophon: All the plants were gathered in Brooklyn. This book was printed by the author in the
summer of 2015 on two Vandercook proof presses at the Center for Book Arts, New York City, in
an edition of forty copies. The text paper is Somerset Brook White 115 and 175 gm, the
endsheets are Hahnemuhle Ingres Blue Green, and the bookcloth is Dover Oxford Black. It was
bound by Daniel Kelm. This is [number] /40. [author's signature].
Printed on double leaves. Eight of the pages containing botanical specimens are of heavy paper,
recessed on one side so that the specimens appear to be matted.
Illustrations are relief prints of botanical specimens.
Includes four lines from John Clare's "Summer moods" and Emily Dickinson's "As if some little
Arctic flower." Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This is 12/40." Author's autograph copy.
Weintraub, Diane., and Diane. Weintraub. The Problem with Dreaming. Iron Bear Press, 1999.
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Visual poetry.
Includes twelve prints based on paintings by Weintraub.
Issued as part of "Dream sequence" a set of four miniature books, each nestled within its own
support, all within a black linen clamshell case.
Printed on one side of an accordion folded sheet; first and last fold mounted on boards. Bound
in teal colored linen cloth. Front cover stitched with beads to create a dream motif. Printed on
cream colored paper.
"The images in this book are prints based on paintings. Text is set in 8 to 10 point Times Roman,
and the paper is Neenah Classic Avon Brillant. Paintings, prints, text and hand binding by Diane
Weintraub. Miniature edition of 50. This is book number: 28"--Colophon.
Artist's autograph copy.
Zapella, Natalia. Nights, the Cosmos and I. Women’s Studio Workshop, 2015.
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"'Nights, the Cosmos, and I' is about the geometry of the cosmos. It investigates the aesthetic
quality of the sewing thread as a graphic resource, using embroidery to illustrate an original
poem about nighttime and its wonders. Using the principles of subtlety and minimalism, three
colors of thread merge with silkscreen-printed lines, encouraging you to take a more attentive
look at the details, thus revealing their texture and tactile quality. The binding choice--an open
accordion book cased in a hardcover--makes it possible to keep the thread ends out of sight, but
still not completely hidden, for the process counts here as much as the result itself"--Publisher's
website, June 15, 2015.
http://www.wsworkshop.org/artists-books/new-artists-books-from-wsw
Limited edition of 60 copies, signed and numbered by the artist.
Accordion-folded Astrobright paper attached at one end to black paper-covered boards case.
Text and some images are silk screened in white. Most images are embroidered in white, black,
and gold thread. Hard cover with accordion-fold leaves made from Astrobrite paper, with
one-color silkscreen and embroidered illustrations.
Artist's autograph copy.
"This is book #48 of 60 copies"--Colophon.