Additional notes: The type is handset Sampson and Libra printed on dampened flax paper handmade especially for this book by Bridge O'Malley at Cave Paper. The horoscope as well as the signs and symbols throughout, are drawn by Carolee Campbell and printed from photopolymer plates. Additional symbols are applied by hand using pure earth pigments. The boards are covered in flax paper hand coated with a mixture of ochre pigment and fine volcanic pumice. An enclosure for the book {wrap-around chemise with triangular green leather closure], along with a chapbook containg a legend for the symbols [titled Glossary of Signs and Symbols], completes the edition.
Illustrated on page 15 of Illustrated Fine Printing: Whittington & Matrix in America, 2008.
Reviewed by Susan M. Allen on page 58 of Parenthesis 15, Autumn 2008.
Illustrated on page 250 of "Book Art Object", The Codex Foundation, 2008.
Exhibition notes: Item 0202 - C6-4/5/6 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.