(Susan Allix) Through Closed Doors

Artist's book by Susan Allix with photographs of Italian doors and accompanying Prints. 7 Paraclausithrya [by] Theocritus Ovid,Tibullus, Plautus, Horace, Catullus, Propertius. [London.] 2005. 104p. 15.5" x 12". 26 photographs - 16 in black and white and 10 in color, of which 20 are full page. With the photographs are a series of prints: 7 etchings, 1 linocut and 1 woodcut. Images printed, with the text, on Somerset pure cotton printmaking paper using Lysson archival inks. Text is handset and printed letterpress in Bembo as the principal typeface with the san serif Granby and more decorative types. There is also stencil, air brush and crayon work, and some titles are printed on grey Japanese or Zerkall papers. Bound in black goatskin on spine and fore-edge with boards covered in Japanese wood veneer paper. The wafer thin wood has been printed, stained gray, air-brushed in soft red and black and wax polished. It is onlaid with paper and reversed goatskin in black, gray, magenta and green. The doublures are black Japanese paper and the endpapers have cut-outs onto a doorway printed onto the fly leaves. Laid in a dark gray cloth dropback box, lined with black. One in an edition of 21 signed copies. Fine.

$5500