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Plumb Bob
A Book Object

Item date(s): 2009

Harriet Bart  - (book artist)
Jill Jevne  - (bookbinding by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 266mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #D/30


Place publication: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: Mneumonic Press

Additional notes:
The book has brass covers with the chemical symbol for lead, Pb hand-engraved on the front cover. With exposed spine and steel hinges enclosing the perimeter of the brass covers.

The book is housed in a hinged masonite and beech case with aluminium covers overlaid with brass handware-cloth and trimmed with brass angle and brads. The binding and case were designed and fabricated by Jill Jevne.

Thirty copies have been printed from Koch Antiqua and FF Meta on 200 lb. Fabriano Artistico by Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. The first twenty-five are press numbered 1-25. Five copies designated artists proofs are lettered A-E.

Illustrated on p3 of Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art by Betty Bright, 2012.

Ref: GB/12402







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