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The Georgics

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"The binding is of Italian buckram, green, with the title stamped in gold leaf on a brown label; and with the sides covered with a hand-made and hand-printed brown-and-green Varese paper. Each copy is placed in a stout brown-and-green slip-case." ;…

The Eclogues / Publius Virgilius Maro

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"The seventh, in this Twenty-eighth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... twenty-five color illustrations ... George Salter ... chose eighteen-point Bell italic for the text ... The paper is Ragston Laid made specially for…

A Weak Sense of Direction

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"A Weak Sense of Direction is an abstract exploration of the journey of traveling by bicycle. There exist several similarities in riding a bike and experiencing art in a book format. While both can be experienced in a distinctly linear manner, one…

The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford

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Edited by Mary Berry. cf. Dict. nat. biog.

Fatherland

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Written in the voice of a woman dead for 7 years. Fatherland is an artist's book about funerary rites in Taiwan which continue to change in modern day Taiwan.

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Washington's Dilemma ; Sackcloth & Butternut, 1775-8

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Illustrations of soldiers' uniforms accompanied by letters George Washington wrote during the war years.

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The Catalog

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Artists' book, mimicking a mail order clothing catalogue, featuring photographs of models and clothes made of collages