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Paper Botanists
Cultivators of Artifice

Item date(s): 2021

Claudia Cohen
Barbara Hodgson

Pages: 94pp
Size: 340mm
Technique: See Reference notes
Inscription: Signed by both artists
Edition: #25/30

Place publication: Canada
Publisher: Byzantium Press

Additional notes:
Colophon: This book was designed & composed in Monotype Fournier by Barbara Hodgson. It was printed with a handpress by Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey on dampened Arches paper. Claudia Cohen bound each copy in her Seattle studio. Uncredited, contemporary plant images from nature & imagination were executed by the authors.

Issued in two states, both bound and boxed by Claudia Cohen. Copies 1 — 10 (and A.P. I — III) extra-bound in full gilt-tooled leather and issued with an additional portfolio of scarcer historical samples (Out of Print). Copies 11 — 30 (and A.P. IV — VIT) bound in quarter leather with Cohen's paste papers over boards, gold tooling and leather fore edges. Including a separate portfolio of eleven larger pages (with index page), each in a Mylar wrapper and all in a chemise tied with a decorated ribbon. Chromolithographed endpapers.

Extensive Annotated Bibliography.

The solander box, with titled spine, contains the book and the portfolio with padding to accommodate their differing sizes.

Vamp & Tramp description: "Paper Botanists" explores the connections between paper and botanical arts. Some illustrations are culled from incomplete volumes of botanical texts over the last 350 years, and those specially created by the authors for this book. The first of the authors’ collaborations to be published by Byzantium.

Reference note:
Extended subtitle: or Botany Depicted by the Various Arts of Drawing, Painting, Nature Printing, Wood- & Linocutting, Etching, Engraving, Lithography, Sun Printing, Photography, Marbling, Stencilling, Punching, Papercutting, & etc.

Separately inserted in the box is a prospectus for the book together with a letter dated Feb. 7 2022, addressed to Jack Ginsberg which is signed by the artists.

Ref: GB/30415