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Books On Books Collection - Helen Yentus

On Such a Full Sea (2013) On Such a Full Sea (2013)Chang-rae Lee Jacket and slipcase designHelen YentusBook in slipcase. H23o x W150 mm; slipcase only, W110 mm. 368 pages. Edition of 500, of which this is #178. Acquired 1 October 2018. Photo: Riverhead Books and AIGA. Riverhead art director Helen Yentus and members of the MakerBot team designed this slipcase for Lee’s novel. An edition of 500,…

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Bookmarking Book Art - Helen Yentus

  On Such a Full SeaChang-rae Leecredit: Riverhead Books “This limited, numbered edition of Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea will be available on January 7th, 2014. Riverhead art director Helen Yentus and members of the MakerBot team designed the slipcase, and 200 of them will be made with the MakerBot® Replicator® 2 Desktop 3D Printer with MakerBot PLA filament, a bioplastic made of corn,…

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Books On Books - Marlene MacCallum (II)

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Bookmarking Book Art - Ouroboros Press

“Folding Plates in Esoteric Literature” William Kiesel, founder of Ouroboros Press, has an insightful essay with impressive examples of the “fold out” device here. Among the examples are Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Age and Codex Rosicrucis Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Zoroaster’s Telescope: The Key to the great divinatory Kabbala of the Magi Napoleon’s Book…

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Bookmarking Book Art - Movables Now and Then

In July this year, a video was posted as if in response to the conclusion of Kyle Olmon’s “Movable Book Artists” in Parenthesis 31 (2020): There is little in the way of scholarship and criticism in regard to pop-up and movable books. Part of this is the stigma of being represented as a commercial novelty product or kiddie book by twentieth-century publishers. The explosion of artists’ books in…

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Books On Books Collection - Jessica Drenk

Bookmarking Book Art - Jessica Drenk

Carving 9 (2021) Carving 9 (2012) Jessica Drenk Altered book and wax. H203 x W152 x D38 mm. Unique. Acquired from the Seager Gray Gallery, 10 February 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the gallery. Once a book becomes another material from which art can be made, the rectangular block offers itself up to an unbounded variety of treatments. It can be folded into something else. Or macerated and squeezed…

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Books On Books Collection - Chisato Tamabayashi

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Books On Books Collection - Tim Mosely

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Books On Books Collection - Chris Ruston (II)

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Books On Books Collection - Katsumi Komagata (II)

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Books On Books Collection - Helen Siegl

Herball from The Dialogues of Creatures Moralised Applicable and edifying to every merry and jocund matter, and right profitable to the governance of men. [Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus and Mayno de’ Mayneri. First printed in Latin by Gerard Leeu in Gouda in 1480 & in English in 1535.] (1979) Helen Siegl Hardcover in mustard colored cloth with a paper label to the spine; with 11 woodcut…

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Books On Books Collection - Carol Barton

Land Forms and Air Currents (2014) Land Forms and Air Currents (2014) Carol Barton Leporello (with 11 pop-ups) fixed to inside cover of case, cloth over board, debossed with fitted, pastedown artwork on front cover and spine. Cover: H292 x W192 x D50 mm. Leporello: H275 x W175 mm. 37 panels. Edition of 25, of which this is #21. Acquired from the artist, 27 October 2023. Photos: Books On Books…

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Books On Books Collection - Jacobus Oudyn (III)

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Books On Books Collection - Jane Cradock-Watson

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Books On Books Collection - Chaucer's ABC

ABC by Geoffrey Chaucer (1934) ABC by Geoffrey Chaucer (1934)[Eleanor] Joyce Francis Chapbook, softcover sewn. H250 x W170 mm. 16 pages. Edition of 500? Acquired from Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis, 30 April 2021.Photos: Emilia Osztafi.* Chaucer’s ABC (ca. 1369) is an intriguing early work in the history of abecedaries. There are alphabet poems in the Hebrew Bible, but according to the artists’…

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Books On Books Collection - Teo Eve

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Books On Books Collection - Lily Markiewicz