Printed in Japan by Hiroshi Kawanishi, Takeshi Shimada, and Kenjiro Nonaka of Simca Print Artists. The edition is printed in hand-pulled silkscreen, and is limited to five hundred copies, plus fifty-four artists' proof copies.

Reference note:
554 copies printed (screenprinted throughout, hand-pulled) by Hiroshi Kawanishi, Takeshi Shimada, and Kenjiro Nonaka of Simca Print Artists, Japan, including 54 artists' proof copies.

"A facsimile of a book conceived ... in the late '50s ... John Cage was inspired to write a text which Lois Long cut to a length she could manage to illustrate. Working ... with gouache and some collage, she made a dummy ... It is this dummy that has been reproduced with such infinite care"--Print collectors' newsletter, v. 15, no. 1 (Mar.-Apr. 1984), p. 27.

Consists of a strip formed from 19 whole sheets (13 x 25 cm.) overlapping and laminated to 18 whole and 2 half sheets (13 x 13 cm.) and folded accordion-style to form 18 double-thickness double leaves with single leaves at beginning and end.

Issued with a leaflet containing "A note on 'Mud book'" by John Russell and the colophon.

29 pages contain ill. of various sizes (2 are double-page) and/or text reproduced from ms., 8 contain text only (some with reproductions of mud stains), 3 are blank. As many as sixty-one screens were used; cf. Print collectors' newsletter. Printer's blind stamp on t.p.

Issued unbound, in khaki cloth covers with bone clasps, in a wooden box with sliding top (15 x 15 x 4 cm.).

Exhibition notes:
leporello

JGCBA, WAM

24 September – 13 December 2024

Ref: GB/14730