Carbon /
Four volumes laid in a gray cloth-covered drop-spine box lined with felt, separated by leaves of carbon-infused cardboard. First and second volumes contain poem text; second volume printed in black on black paper. The third volume is a box containing 8 folded broadsides of varying sizes, a booklet,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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MMXXIV [2024]
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| Edition: | 26 lettered copies. |
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| Summary: | Four volumes laid in a gray cloth-covered drop-spine box lined with felt, separated by leaves of carbon-infused cardboard. First and second volumes contain poem text; second volume printed in black on black paper. The third volume is a box containing 8 folded broadsides of varying sizes, a booklet, and a prospectus dated 2022. The fourth volume is affixed to the bottom of the box and does not open, but has 10 glass specimen bottles laid into its 'cover,' each containing particles of the book's ingredients (car exhaust, chimney soot, Irish dulse, peat ash, charcoal, lampblack, candle smoke, graphite, ground coal, diamond dust). |
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| Item Description: | Title from box spine. "Concept, design and letterpress printing by Jamie Murphy, assisted by Ellen Martin-Friel. The type is six line Carbon Mono, a new woodletter designed for this book by Bobby Tannam, produced from end-grain beech by Scott Cameron. Approx 80 books printed. Bindings by Antiquarian bookcrafts; 54 numbered copies on 200gsm Losiny Handmade in goat & carbon painted paper over boards, housed in a solander box. 26 lettered copies on 200gsm Losiny handmade, bound in full (carbon altered) goat, accompanied by a second printing on dark graphite & diamond-infused Losiny paper, along with a portfolio of extra printed pieces and a layer of carbon materials used, presented in a cloth-covered solander box"--Colophon. "Carbon is the basis for all life on earth, and the harbinger of our demise. Jessica Traynor's hypnotic prose poem contemplates this element in its many forms, following a meteor's flight, picking through WWII bombsites, visiting geodesic domes, seventeenth century laboratories, Plato's cave, and pushing ever deeper below the earth's crust in search of wild spirits, and the black lake at the heart of all things"--From Kelmscott Bookshop website. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive; is copy E signed by the author and initialed by the book artist; contains a signed note from the book artist. |
| Physical Description: | 4 volumes : illustrations ; 44 cm, in box 46 x 31 x 15 cm |