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WunderCabinet
The Curious Worlds of Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen

Item date(s): 2011

Claudia Cohen
Barbara Hodgson


Pages: 51pp
Size: 264mm
Inscription: Signed by both artists.
Edition: #10/36


Place publication: Vancouver, Canada
Publisher: Heavenly Monkey Editions
Cat. 139 - C7-7
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
This book was designed and set in Bembo by Barbara Hodgson. Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey printed it damp on paper made by Reg Lissel of Vancouver. Peter Braune and Lesley Anderson of New Leaf Editions printed the frontispiece copperplate etching. Hand colouring and other embellishment have been done by the authors. Claudia Cohen bound each copy in her Seattle studio. The edition thirty numberd and six A.P. copies.

The book is bound in full leather in black, gray, green and beige leather with gold tooling and green marbled endpapers. The book and the 44 accompanying items are housed in a box with compartments under, at at the side of the book on the top level and in two drawers on the second level. The box is decorated with green, grey and beige marquetry with the title on green leather on the lid. The whole box has gold tooled trim; 285 x 300 x 105mm.

Included is Catalogue No. 10 bound in green marbled papers to match the endpapers of the book with title label in ms on the cover and listing the 44 items accompanying the book; 155mm.

Folded pamphlet containing items 43 and 44 with title label in ms on the cover: Sunprint & Watercolour.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0139 - C7-7 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/13062



















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