The Musæum Kochianum. by [Koch, Peter] Peter Koch et al - 2016.

Berkeley, California:: Editions Koch & Stanford University Libraries,, 2016.. Edition of 15. The Musæum Kochianum consists of a boxed edition of the three-volume catalogue "Peter Koch Printer" accompanied by a fourth volume entitled "The Ur-text Musæum" and a boxed selection of four exhibition catalogues, printed ephemera, announcements, and a variety of prospectuses issued from the press over that past forty years. Three Volume Catalogue "Peter Koch Printer" [Edition of 350]: Volume I: "Peter Koch Printer: Embodied Language and the Form of the Book: A Descriptive Bibliography [1974-2016]" Contents: Essays by Mark Dimunation and Timothy D. Murray, and an interview with Peter Rutledge Koch by Roberto G. Trujillo. Bibliography by Nina M. Schneider. Volume 2: "Hard Words: Memory and Death in the Wild West" - "Hard Words" documents Koch's "Western Suite," which consists of three portfolio editions, two books, and two installation/exhibitions dedicated to themes of exploration and the subsequent destruction of the American West. The two volumes, "Liber Ignis" and "The Lost Journals of Sacajewea", are fully illustrated in facsimile. Two exhibition portfolios, "Hard Words" and "Nature Morte", are also presented in their entirety. The editions and commentaries are accompanied by a lengthy critical essay by novelist and scholar Aaron Parrett. Volume 3: "Against Design": Interview with Peter Rutledge Koch by Monique Comacchio and Camden Richards. "Against Design" focuses on the typographic design and letterpress printing that has issued from the Koch studios for more than four decades. Illustrated with examples of Koch's bibliophilic, typographic, and cowboy surrealist ephemera."  The "Ur-text Musæum" [Edition of 15]: Koch Editions: "The Ur-text Musæum, a suite of studies for a work-in-progress, consists of ten bifolia printed on vintage Fabriano Umbria handmade paper at Peter Koch Printers and Magnolia Editions. The Musaeum, composed of appropriated texts and images, is altered, annotated, and supplemented by Koch's visual and verbal imagination- a surreal Liber Chronicarum for the 21st Century: "The origin of The Ur-text Musæum is Ur-text Volume 2, begun in 1994 and abandoned in favor of this treatment in 2017. The conceptual forerunners are Koch's Ur-Text Volume 1, Christopher Plantin's polyglot Biblia Regia, and Anton Koberger's Liber Chronicarum. Texts include selections from the Book of Genesis (Jerome translation; also appearing in Hebrew and Greek); The Revelation of St. John from The New English Bible; the Inferno by Dante Alighieri; I Modi by Pietro Aretino; The Effects of Nuclear Weapons by The United States Department of Defense, with additional marginalia, commentary, and Koch's long poem "Magnus Annus" first published in The Aldebaran Review, Berkeley, 1968.  "Images are collected from a number of sources including: Liber Chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel, Nuremburg 1493, I Modi by Pietro Aretino, Venice 1550; Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Solius, Verae, Christiano- Kabalisticum, Divino-Magicum, Physico-Chymicum, Tertriunum-Catholicon. Hamburg 1595; The Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi ... metaphysica, physica atque technica Historia, &c., Oppenheim and Frankfort, 1617-24; The Effects of Nuclear Weapons United States Department of Defense and the Energy Research and Development Administration Washington D.C. 1977; with additional images from US Department of Defense; the Library Of Congress; the Montana Historical Society Photographic Archives; random internet captures; etc."  "Koch Ephemera" [selected 1974-2016] [Edition of 15] :An assembling of ephemera, original prints, exhibition and lecture announcements, posters, type specimens, etc. - also includes four exhibition catalogues: Peter Koch Printer | Cowboy Surrealists, Maverick Poets & Pre-Socratic Philosophers published jointly by the New York Public and the San Francisco Public Libraries in 1995; Peter Koch Printer | Recent Work published by the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, The Houghton Library, Harvard University [1995]; Hard Words published by Gallery 16 and the University of Montana Art Galeries [2000]; Nature Morte published by the Holter Museum of Art [2004].