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Pictorial Webster's
A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities

Item date(s): 2006

John M. (Johnny) Carrera


Pages: xxvii, 483pp
Size: 162mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: #10/100


Place publication: Waltham, MA
Publisher: Quercus Press
ISBN: 0-9773701-0-0

Additional notes:
G. & C. Merriam dictionary engravings of the nineteenth century printed alphabetically as a source for creativity in the human brain with additional dissertation by John M. Carrera, author, composer, printer.

Three-quarter red leather binding with covers and all edges decorated with words from the dictionary. In a beige drop-back box with title on spine.

Illustrated on page 294 of "Book Art Object", The Codex Foundation, 2008.

See 11601 for the Trade Edition (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2009).

See article: deFINEd Bindings: 26 book artists dress up Pictorial Webster's Dictionary (Felt & Wire).

Reference note:
(Additional Material)

Exhibition notes:
Beyond Words

JGCBA

20 June - 11 Aug 2023



Ref: GB/11602


   



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