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San Diego: Bay Park Press, 2006. Limited edition. Hardcover. near fine. 1/10. Oblong quarto. 12 x 10". 8 leaves (6 fold-out pages). Textured half tan over red cloth, with square cutout, framing an intaglio print on handmade paper on the front cover. Gold-brown lettering. The publication is a beautifully produced artist's book by printer and printmaker Sibyl Rubottom, looking at the different "Sibyls" throughout history and their roles. Each "Sibyl" mentioned is accompanied by a piece of text or poem, and an original intaglio print. Each print is hand signed and dated by the artist in pencil. As stated on the colophon the book has been printed on "Dutch etching paper in Bodoni, Bernard Modern, Albertus, and Palatino type. There are eight intaglio prints in a limited edition of ten books." The colophon is signed and hand-numbered (#4) in pencil, by the artist. Missing the original box. Binding and interior in near fine condition.
Dimity of Blue by Rubottom, Sibyl - 2010.: Poems by Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats
by Rubottom, Sibyl
Dimity of Blue: Poems by Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats
by Rubottom, Sibyl
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San Diego, California:: Sibyl Rubottom,, 2010.. Edition of 10. 4 x 5.75"; 12 pages. Double-sided accordion. Four original silk painting collages. Intaglio covers. Letterpress-printed, painted, and bound at Bay Park Press. Housed in an aqua blue cloth-covered French style clamshell box. Printed at Bay Park Press. [Dimity: a thin cotton fabric with a texture produced by weaving together yarns of different thicknesses.] Three poems, one each by Neruda (in English translation), Dickinson, and Yeats, accompanied by Rubottom's collage paintings.
- Bookseller Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 3
- Edition Edition of 10
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Sibyl Rubottom,
- Place of Publication San Diego, California:
- Date Published 2010.
- Keywords Artists' Books Artists' Books Poetry California Press