Solmentes press (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Special Edition. Title in Hindi and English. 10 colour woodcuts hand printed from the original wood- blocks, the text from polymer plates. Number 26 of 45 (50) copies in printed cloth boards, titled in white on the spine, Indian handmade paper endleaves, gold, mauve and cream. White cloth slipcase. A fine copy. There are many different ways to cook curry - this transcript of a conversation with a taxi driver describes just one approach and was recorded at 4.30 a.m. while travelling between terminals at London's Heathrow airport. The woodcuts are based on Indian Kolam, designs traditionally created outside homes to bring prosperity and ward off evil spirits.…

11/45 COPIES (from an edition of 50 copies), 10 woodcuts, pp. [19, rectos only], oblong 8vo, original pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in white, edges untrimmed, endpapers with a stamped repeating eye design in gold and purple, slipcase, fine. A transcript of a conversation. 'The woodcuts are based on Indian Kolam, designs traditionally created outside homes to bring prosperity and ward off evil spirits' (colophon).…

10/30 COPIES numbered and signed by the designer and printer, David Esslemont, printed in Centaur MT, on Moab Entrada, double and single page reproduction of 'De Cataractis' chapter, two single page vibrant digitally created flowers, each with blurred version printed on Kitakata Gampi paper, woodcuts on title and colophon, colour photographic illustration of trees in snow, pp. [20], folio, original yellow card wrappers, with deep blue Lokta dust wrappers, cover with title and eye woodcut printed in black, fine. A beautiful production from Esslemont, inspired by personal experience, in his usual eclectic style, continuing his practice of animating older texts with new techniques. The book containing the 'De Cataractis' chapter is a fifteenth-century copy of De Medicina from the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, while the woodcuts are from Gregor Reisch's Margarita Philosophic, 1503, and the digital flowers from Esslemont's own Florilegium Solmente, 2010. 'I hope the curious will find Celsus's description an interesting read and enjoy lifting the veils of Gampi paper to reveal the effect of phacoemulsification with intraoculaur lens Model DCB00 implantation.' (Introduction). …