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Author:

Cooksey, Gabrielle, book artist. book artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016128409

Title:

Chronicles of a coleopterists strikingly curious swarm / by Gabby Cooksey.

Publisher:

Springtide Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Subject:

Beetles--Behavior--Fiction.
Coleopterology--Fiction.
Beetles--Pictorial works.
Artists' books--Tacoma--Tacoma--Specimens.
Letterpress printing--Tacoma--Tacoma--Specimens.
Artists' books.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

Springtide Press, printer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003043515
Spring, Jessica, printer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003043122

Notes:

12 aluminum beetles with accompanying stories. Seven of the stories were written by the book artist. The others are taken from: The autobiography of Charles Darwin; Aesop's fable "The eagle and the beetle"; "The beetle who went on his travels," by Hans Christian Anderson; "The gold bug," by Edgar Allan Poe; and the story of the Mayan princess and the beetle, a Yucatan legend. Limited edition of 26 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "The beetles are crafted out of embossing paper templates and photopolymer plates, stylized with a ball point pen and painted with alcohol ink on aluminum. The pages are Suede-tex paper painted with acrylic paint; the cover is Cave paper. Mrs. Eaves's text is printed on photopolymer plates ... Letterpress printed at Springtide Press with Jessica Spring in Tacoma, WA. ... Fall 2018."--Colophon. Interleaved with protective sheets of tissue. Special Collections has copy no. 22/26, signed by Gabrielle Cooksey. IaU

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1062353927

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)