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The Tower of Babel
An Anthology

Item date(s): 1975

Claire Van Vliet - (book artist)

Size: 347mm
Inscription: Inscribed and dated by the artist 9 July 1985.
Edition: #60/110

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: West Burke, VT
Publisher: Janus Press

Additional notes:
Seventeen lithographs and one wood-engraving by Claire Van Vliet. Printed directly from the stone by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS Oslo on Zerkall Butten Paper. The letterpress printing of wood-engraving and type has been done by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press.

In linen drop-back box by Jim Bicknell..

Illustrated in Joshua Heller Rare Books Catalogue #37, 2009, Item 41.

Ref: GB/10787

Articles

Legend of the Chin
Sir James George Scott

The Genesis text on the Tower of Bavel
Genesis
Selections from the Geneva Bible, 1560, Genesis XI: 1-9.

The Great Wall and the Tower of Babel
Willa and Edwin Muir (translated by)
Franz Kafka

The Tower of Babel
Eithne Wilkins (translated by)
Ernst Kaiser (translated by)
Franz Kafka

The Pit of Babel
Willa and Edwin Muir (translated by)
Franz Kafka

The City Coat of Arms
Willa and Edwin Muir (translated by)
Franz Kafka

Builders of Babel
Proverbs
Ten Portraits with quotations from Proverbs. Selections from the Geneva Bible, 1560. Proverbs I: 20-31 & etc.