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The Diaries of Adam & Eve

Item date(s): 2003

Mark Twain - (translated by)
Henry Dorure - (designed by)
Charles Hobson - (book artist)

Pages: 17pp + 17pp
Size: 340mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: AP C of 38 copies.

Place publication: San Francisco, CA
Publisher: Pacific Editions
Cat. 076 - C9-9
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Exerpts from The Diaries of Adam & Eve as translated by Mark Twain has been made as a limited edition of 38 copies during the summer of 2003. The images of a running man and woman created as pastel monotypes are printed as digital igment prints and are baed on the human motion studies by Eadweard Muybridge made in 1901. The separate print entitled "Adam & Eve Embracing" contains the handwriting of Livy Twain written August 5, 1903. The concertina and French door structure with cut-out pages and collaged folded sheets has been designed by Charles Hobson and assembled with the assistance of Alice Shaw. John DeMerritt made the board covers and slipcase.

Comlicated double accordian fold with cutouts and foredge text. Decorated covers and slipcase.

Exhibition notes:
Item 076 - C9-9 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Ref: GB/10156