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Davidson, Laura. Rome. Travel Guide Series. Boston  2003

Artist's book, one of 20 copies, all on Frankfurt white paper, each page dyed with Lavazza espresso, numbered and signed and dated in pencil by the artist, Laura Davidson, on the colophon. Page size: 6-5/16 inches x 4-1/4 inches; 38 pages, 3 of which are double fold or lift-up. Bound: hand- painted red boards with gold gilt, black painted edges, black book tape over sewn spine, endpapers of maps scanned from 1893 Italian Baedeker Italy book, fine. This is the second in a series of artists' books incorporating old travel guidebooks. The artists has scanned pages from an 1893 Italian Baedeker and then added to the resulting pages with collaged woodcuts, woodcuts and linoleum cuts printed over the Baedeker page, i.e. print of table set with wine, glasses and artichoke on plate, over the entry for "restaurants" as a fold-over page and print. Following the entry for the Vatican is a double page woodcut of the top of the Vatican roof with the disciples outlined against the sky. The Biblioteca Vaticana entry is cut out with a woodcut of an old book collaged to the page with opens to a picture of the library. Other collages are found - always put in strategic places guaranteed to bring a smile to the reader. The colophon is headed with S.P.Q.R. (acronym for Latin noun phrase meaning "The Senate and the People of Rome" referring to the government of ancient Rome). The colophon is completed by a linoleum cut of a traditional espresso pot in black printed on gray paper and collaged at the bottom of the page.

$US750

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