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Several Split Fountains
and a Jack

Item date(s): 2007

Daniel Mellis


Pages: unpaged
Size: 277mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #4/20


Place publication: Chicago, IL
Publisher: The Jack of All Trades Press

Additional notes:
Letterpress printed using photopolymer pltes, a rectangular linoleum block and one metal sort on Mohawk Superfine and Crane's Lettra. Pamphlet sewn with a Table of Colors laid in. Set in Clarendon and Futura.

Several Split Fountains is at once a wry homage to Ed Ruscha and a celebration of a printing technique. After imitating the typography of the beginnning of Twentysix Gasoline Stations, down to the dedication to Patty Callahan, there are 13 rectangular split fountains of solid color. The book ends with a split fountain of the rtist's printer's mark with the addition of a red ampersand. A separate sheet, the Table of Colors, lists the names of the inks used.

Ref: GB/13300



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