Davidson, Laura. Useful Knowledge. Boston 1998
Artist's Book, one of 25 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist, all on rives BFK and Frankfurt cream paper. Page size: 6-1/2 x 4-3/4". Bound: wood boards with leather spine, boards carved and painted representing Galileo's heliocentric celestial spheres. New. Illustrated with 17 linoleum prints of images, maps and text, some hand colored, of tools, navigation, astronomy, nature, and engineering. The artist tells us that USEFUL KNOWLEDGE is inspired by years of curiosity about early science. "When I look at a rare book the text is often incomprehensible to me, because of the language or letter form. The book, then, becomes a while visual object, rather than something that needs to be read to be understood." One of the pages holds a volvelle (movable circle) for astronomical calculations. A lovely book and book object.
$US900
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