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Hermetic Waste

Item date(s): 1986

Hildegard von Bingen
Susan Johanknecht  - (book artist)


Pages: 31p (unpaged)
Size: 206mm, oblong
Edition: #34/40

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: West Burke, VT
Publisher: Gefn Press

Additional notes:
Letterpress was printed at the Janus Press, Vermont and the seven collagraphs printed at the Central School of Art, London by Susan Johanknecht in an edition of 40 copies of which this is number 34. From a fact sheet on the disposal of nuclear waste. From the writings of Paracelsus 1493-1541. From the writings of Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179. Bound in ribbed plastic over wrappers and enclosed in plastic tuck-in slipcase. The collagraphs interleaved with plastic. Printed on verso only. Slipcase. See also in Books do Furnish a Room (2003).

Illustrated on page 152 of Artists' Books by Stephen Bury, 1995.

Illustrated on page 172 of Speaking of Book Art by Cathy Courtney, 1999.

Note: Claire Van Vliet is not an author

Ref: GB/6851



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