Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2023. 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, which is signed by the artist. According to the book artist: "A book about suspension bridges got a lot more interesting when it turned into a pop-up book. The delightful thing about pop-ups is their movement, and bridges don't have a lot of that, except when the wind gets dangerously strong. Lifting the bridge from its background made that part of the picture became somehow more real than the rest. The pop-up engineering is correspondingly simple and it seemed appropriate for the pictures of the bridges to be changed to black and white. A nice extra is that the paper I've used is fairly stiff, and when the book is opened, the pages do literally pop open." The book is bound in a beautiful Jemma Lewis marbled paper with a paper title label to spine. The interior is printed on Red River Ultra-Pro Satin paper. Housed in a slipcase covered in matching marbled paper. Book Size: 2 5/8 x 2 x 1 1/4 inches. Slipcase Size: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 x 1 3/8 inches. In fine condition. 44 pages. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2021. 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 limited edition, which is signed by the artist. Number 21 of 30 variant copies. Each copy is in a different box, bound in papers to match the box. According to the book artist: "Bo Press Miniature Books began in 2007 with a little book called Celestial Variations. Since then, another one hundred and forty-seven (one hundred and forty-eight now) books have emerged with subjects as diverse as maps of real and imaginary places, poetry, architecture, history, flea circuses, and books themselves. The History of Bo Press is a collection of every book I’ve ever written, illustrated, designed, and published (that I can remember) since then. This is a fairly easygoing bibliography, and a few lacunae are to be expected from someone like me who hates to keep records. The book listings include title, author, illustrator, pages, dime." Both volumes are bound in tan marbled paper with paper title labels to spines and front boards. Housed in a slipcase covered in marbled paper and off-white handmade paper with a metal chain lining the seams of where the papers meet. Each volume is 170 pages. Size: Books: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches; Case: 3 x 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Riverside, CA: Bo Press Miniature Books, 2021. 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. This book is from a limited edition, which is signed by the artist. Number 29 of 30 variant copies. Each copy is in a different box, bound in papers to match the box. According to the book artist: "Bo Press Miniature Books began in 2007 with a little book called Celestial Variations. Since then, another one hundred and forty-seven (one hundred and forty-eight now) books have emerged with subjects as diverse as maps of real and imaginary places, poetry, architecture, history, flea circuses, and books themselves. The History of Bo Press is a collection of every book I’ve ever written, illustrated, designed, and published (that I can remember) since then. This is a fairly easygoing bibliography, and a few lacunae are to be expected from someone like me who hates to keep records. The book listings include title, author, illustrator, pages, dime." Both volumes are bound in tan marbled paper with paper title labels to spines and front boards. Housed in a clamshell box covered in tan marbled paper with black and red dragonfly accents. Lined with black and red dragonfly paper. Each volume is 170 pages. Size: Books: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches; Case: 3 x 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. ARTB/091123. Fine. More

Gainesville, FL: Crooked Letter Press, 2015. Hardcover. Number 10 of 50 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. According to the artist: "'Ingress / Egress' is an artist's book that contemplates 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