Scope and Contents This consists of a stage 1 proof and stage 2 proof (the final print) for the frontispiece of the deluxe limited edition of the book; it also served as the illustration for the dust jacket of the trade edition published by Thames and Hudson. The Stage 1 proof indicated that the image was the Editions Electo version. Phillips comments are as follows: This print in the original edition is a twenty-seven colour screenprint and is loosely based on a small reproduction of a painting attributed (equally loosely I think) to Signorelli. I have departed from this source in almost all respects and have introduced a back window which looks out on a quasi-metaphysical landscape that includes a rocky outcrop (derived from a nude photograph in an erotic magazine called in Depth') in front of which stands a cypress tree; a traditional reference to death but here also in form and position relating to a phallus. The juxtaposition recalls the idea (cf. Canto XXXIV/3) that any visit to the underworld...

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This heralds the use throughout the book of a verbal commentary made up of treated fragments of the Victorian Novel A Human Document by W. H. Mallock, which else forms the basis of A Humument (Thames and Hudson 1980). Phillips comments: Having once boasted that Mallock's turgid text was an inexhaustible mine I here put it to its sternest test, to parallel the visual commentary of the plates with verbal glosses that might act as an alternative line of markers as the reader follows Dante's journey. I have been using Mallock's book now for twenty years; another twenty or so and we both might make it to Paradise. The image here presents a marbled world (the world as book) with a missing segment to indicate the hollowed cone of hell, here oriented sideways to act as an arrow pointing into the book. In Taoist cosmology Ch'i, the moving spirit of the universe, is expressed in art by marbling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This suite of stage proofs for the title page was done for the deluxe limited edition of the book; a different title page was utilized for the trade edition published by Thames and Hudson. It includes stages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. The firsr five are printed on texts of Phillips translations of the Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Petrus Apianus' illustrated book, "Astronomicum Caesareum" (1540) is depicted and described. The Sackner Archive holds a facsimile edition of this work. The catalogue entry of this original masterpiece states: "This copy is a magnificent example of 16th-century bookmaking. The Astronomicum Caesareum contains a broad analysis of Ptolemaic astronomy and is notable for Apianus's pioneering observations on comets, particularly his discovery that comets always point their tails away from the sun. The elaborate folio includes more than 100 woodcut and typographic diagrams, vignettes and illustrations in the text, many with movable type." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes an essay on the work of Michel Butor by Michel Sicard with a bibliography of Butor's limited and unique editions. Butor's collaboration with Mehdi Qotbi, "L'Espace Arabesque," an artist book in two examples held by the Sackner Archive, is cited. Philip Smith contributes an essay, "The New Bookbinding; Exploration of its Possibilities." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes an essay on the work of Michel Butor by Michel Sicard with a bibliography of Butor's limited and unique editions. Butor's collaboration with Mehdi Qotbi, "L'Espace Arabesque," an artist book in two examples held by the Sackner Archive, is cited. Philip Smith contributes an essay, "The New Bookbinding; Exploration of its Possibilities." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes an exhibition review of Kickshaws Press 10 years' retrospective held in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The bookbinder, Daniel Knoderer, who is featured in this issue, makes highly experimental visual/verbal works. Includes an article on Jacques Doucet, the great French book and art collector. Marvin Sackner was compared to Doucet in an issue of Berenice, the journal of Inism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the second edition of the book that was first published in 1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition dealing mainly with illustrated books was curated by Ralph Jentsch. Several books in the exhibition (by Carmi, Pignotti, Anselmo and the Futurists) incorporating visual poetry and Parole In Liberta are also held by the Sackner Archive. The citations of the books are listed in a bibliographically, organized style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was divided into three parts, Le Livre D'Artiste (curated by Merielle Etignard who visited Sackner Archive in 1996), Le Livre Illustre, and Le Carnet D'Artiste. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of a listing of rarely used words with brief definitions in an alphabetical order. The illustrations are keyed to the definitions that have different color types than most of the words in the listing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.