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15. Ausgabe 1996-97.

Item date(s): 1996

Heinz Stefan Bartkowiak - (edited with an introduction by)

Pages: 731pp
Size: 208mm
Edition: #24/100

Sub-type: Catalogue

Place publication: Hamburg, Germany
Publisher: Heinz Stefan Bartkowiak

Additional notes:
Kompendium zeitgenössischer Handpressendrucke, Malerbücher, Künstlerbücher, Einblattdrucke, Mappenwerke und Buchobjekte.

Compendium of Contemporary Fine Prints, Artist Books, Broadsides, Portfolios and Book Objects.

The regular issue of this 15th edition contains seven colored original prints and is housed in a slipcase in the shape of a "B". This is the second special edition of 100 copies + 10 copies accompanying the regular edition. Packaged separately in a wrap-around green chemise with a portfolio with ten signed and numbered original prints by ten artists.

This compendium is a bibliographic edition containing information and support for collectors, book dealers, museums, and libraries. It offers a current overview of the book art world.

Bilingual German / English edition: some articles in only one language and some in both.

Including Book Recommendations, Workshops and indices of addresses, artists, authors, printers, typographers, bookbinders, paper and advertisers.

Only those pertinent articles have been indexed; there are many other peripheral articles in the book which are listed in the comprehensive index in the Compress (1977).

Ref: 1244

Articles

Über die Qualität eines Buches
Ingeborg M. Hartmann (essay by)
p10

Wahrhaftige Buchwesen
Reinhard Grüner (essay by)
p52
Gedanken eines Sammlers zu zehn Jahren Edition Augenweide.

Contemporary Polish Book Art
Pyotr (Piotr) Rypson (essay by)
p62
Also in German at p66: Polnische Buchkunst der Gegenwart.

The Ladies Printing Bee
Jules Remedios Faye (essay by)
p82
Preface of the book "The Ladies Printing Bee" an anthology of thirty-nine lettepress printers addressing the subject of women's work compiled by Jules Remedios Faye, Street of the Crocodiles Printery, Sedro-Woolley, Washington, December 1994.

Ein Traum von Druckerschwärze
Stefan udn Wibke Bartkowiak (essay by)
p90
Bib 3'96 Internationale BuchKunstBiennale in Horn/Niederösterreich.

The Unicum Machine
Pierre Garnier (essay by)
p99
Also in German at p96: Unikatmaschine - Ein Buch für die Welt.

In the Book and About the Book and Beyond the Book
Stefan Soltek (essay by)
p113
Also in German at p110: Vom Buch und im Buch und über das Buch hinaus.

New Web Site for Book Collecting, the History of the Book and the Book Arts.
Oak Knoll Books (essay by)
p118

Erste Eschatologische Internationale
Hartmut Andryczuk (essay by)
Eine Bilanz

Myosotis Zeitschrift für Buchwesen
Florian Drehl (essay by)
p142
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