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Title(s)
A view of Avebury / Andy English.
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Published/Created
Cambridgeshire : Isle Handpress, 2015.
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Physical Description
1 folded sheet : wood-engraving ; 60 x 250 mm folded to 60 x 40 mm, attached to boards 70 x 50 mm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.4.E577 A94 2015
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Prints
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Notes
"Printed from the wood in an edition of 100."--Colophon.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 14 of 100, signed by the artist.
Accordion-folded sheet bears a wood-engraved depiction of the stone circle at Avebury. With a title panel at front and a colophon panel at back. Attached to marbled paper covered boards with turquoise ribbon ties.
"Avebury is a particularly special place to me. This concertina book was engraved on boxwood, printed in an Albion handpress and bound by Andy English at the Isle Handpress in rural Cambridgeshire. Undo the laces to see the panorama."--Printed sheet (11 x 11 cm) accompanying the volume. -
Subject Terms
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Avebury (England) -- Antiquities. | English, Andy, 1956–, -- Autograph. | Megalithic monuments -- England. | Miniature books -- Specimens. | Private press books -- England -- Ely. | Stone circles -- England -- Avebury.
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Form/Genre
Accordion fold format (Binding) | Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Miniature books. | Wood engravings -- 2015.
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