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Letter of Columbus

Item date(s): 1990

David Citino  - (poem by)
Anthony Rice  - (book artist)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 315mm
Technique: Monoprints off hand painted zinc plates
Edition: #66/130


Place publication: Ohio
Publisher: The Logan Elm Press
Cat. 100
Exhibition 1996

Additional notes:
Poem by David Citino adapted from the letter Columbus wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella on February 15, 1493, on returning to Spain from his first voyage to the New World.

At the Ohio State University. Signed.

Illustrated on page 83 of Fine Print, Volume 16, Number 2, 1990 and reviewed on page 89.

Item 74 of Catalogue 32 - Priscilla Juvelis Rare Books.

Illustrated on page 20 of Patricia G. England Collection of Fine Press and Artists' Books, 2000.

Illustrated as Lot 169 of The Ritter Collection of Modern Illustrated Books and Livres d'Artiste, Swann Auction Galleries, 5/5/09.

Illustrated in Joshua Heller Rare Books Catalogue #37, 2009, Item 62.

Exhibition notes:
Item 100 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections. Johannesburg Art Gallery. 25 August to 27 October 1996.

Ref: GB/1211


   


   


   


   



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