Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, n.d. Hardcover. Pat Sweet writes: "The Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch (“The Book of Wonders”) is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art in northern Europe. The manuscript was produced in the Swabian Imperial Free City of Augsburg sometime between 1545 and 1552. We do not know who commissioned the book, or who supplied the artwork. The book contains miracles: wondrous and mysterious singularities of nature, monstrous births, battles in heaven, rains of blood and meat, acts of God, double and triple suns and moons, and lots and lots of comets. At this time the sacred and the scientific were just beginning to move apart, and this is one of the beginnings of that massive shift. The beautiful, strange, and enigmatic illustrations are in supersaturated gouache and watercolor. Each illumination is captioned in a panel of German Gothic script. The manuscript dropped out of sight sometime in the 17th century and was only recently re-discovered in 2007. A fine modern edition is published by Taschen. I’ve tried to counter the small size of the prints by enlarging a wonderful detail of each picture on the verso. The book is bound in green and brown marbled paper and has two bands of antique bronze chain passing over the front and back of the binding. The title is on a raised rectangle in the front." Measures 2.25 x 3 inches. In fine condition. 145 pages. ARTB/032023. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2022. Hardcover. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. She designs, prints, and binds all of her books and builds (by hand) all of her sculptural items. This mysterious device is made of painted wood, brass, and paper-covered wooden beads depicting the earth and moon. The elaborate base has two levels, one supported by round wooden balls and the other by oval antiqued brass fittings. The earth and moon are suspended on brass circles which lie on a bed of gears and dials, but the parts aren’t movable. That, and the fact that the rotational paths of both bodies aren’t in the least realistic, make this a tool for a magician rather than a scientist. Size: 2 5/8 x 2 x 1 1/2 inches. In fine condition. ARTB/032023. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2022. Hardcover. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. She designs, prints, and binds all of her books and builds (by hand) all of her sculptural items. According to the artist: This is "a medieval version of Windows, allowing several books to be consulted at the same time. These rotating bookshelves came in two variations: vertical and horizontal. The horizontal ones were much easier to make and to use, taking up much less space while making it easier to consult several books at once." This miniature version is made of cherry with mahogany trim and antique brass accents, and a matching stool. It has two revolving turntables, the upper one smaller than the lower so that as many as ten books could be viewable by turning the wheels. There is a writing surface at the left with a sheet of an illuminated manuscript in progress, plus several scribe's tools: two inkwells with pens, a water container, a bottle of ink and a large chained volume with a brass closure. The two rotating wheels hold ten books, some fixed open and some with brass closures. All the books have blank pages. They are bound in paper copies of actual period bindings. Size: 2 3/4 inches (desk height); 6 inches (turntable with desk height); 7 inches wide x 3 3/8 deep. In fine condition. ARTB/032023. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2010. Pat Sweet describes herself as creating illuminated miniature books of curiosity, humor, and delight. She creates both miniature (under 3 inches) and macro-miniature (under 1 inch) books. This book is from a small open edition. According to the book artist: This is a "book inside books inside a book inside a book-shaped box. This has been called the Droste effect, after their recursive advertisements. The book inside this book-shaped box is a collection of jacket designs for books that only exist inside real books: The Necronomicon, The Whole Art of Detection, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler. Each is presented as if hidden inside a hollow book, for yet another layer of un-reality. The title, of course, is from Magritte's famous painting of 'This is Not a Pipe'." Bound in cream paper with gold fleur-de-lis and title label pastedown on front cover. Housed in a brown paper covered slipcase with title label to the cover. Size: 2 1/4 x 1 7/8 x 5/8 inches. In fine condition. 78 pages. ARTB/032023. Fine. More

Gainesville, FL: Crooked Letter Press, 2015. Hardcover. Number 39 of 50 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. According to the artist: "'Ingress / Egress' is an artist's book that conteplates the design of artists' books. The intent of the piece is to encourage ideation on the theme "books are ..." [It is composed of] six French-fold booklets that use geometry, visual design, text, and imagery to investigate topics such as "Books Are Architecture" and "Books Are Collections." They are all letterpress printed on Japanese mulberry paper from photopolymer plates by the Boxcar Press in Humanist, Spectrum, and Spindle (a typeface created by Ellen Knudson). The unbound pages are housed in a clamshell box covered in blue cloth with a diamond shaped paper title label to the front board. This book was selected as one of the five finalists for the 2017 Minnesota Center for Book Arts Bienniel Prize. Size: 6 x 9 inches. Unpaginated. The Crooked Letter Press is the imprint of book artist and graphic designer, Ellen Knudson. Ellen is currently Associate in Book Arts at The University of Florida. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from The University of Alabama. Ellen has been a book artist for 17 years and a professional graphic designer for 20+ years . She has taught letterpress printing and Book Arts at The University of Florida, The University of Alabama, and graphic design at Mississippi State University and Wayne State University. Her work is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yale University, The Library of Congress, and many other national and international collections. PRI/030923. Fine. More

Berkeley: Codex Foundation, 2013. Hardcover. Book Art Object is primarily a record of the third biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium: "The Fate of the Art," held at Berkeley, California, 2011. The event showcased contemporary artist books, fine press and fine art editions produced by the world's most esteemed printers, designers, book artists, and artisans. Showcases 300 books by 140 artists / printers and presents a selection of the papers delivered at the 2009 an 2011 symposium lectures including Paul van Capelleveen, Antoine Coron, Ron King, Juan Pascoe, and Richard Ovenden. Includes 1133 color images. New in white cloth boards with red title to front cover and spine. In new white dust jacket with red title to spine and front cover. 521 pages. BOB/022515. Fine / Fine. More