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MANUSCRIPT PAGES:
  • 15, brown gothic text with gold letter
  • 9, small page with very nice multicolor decorated initials w/ gold
  • 17, large page, red and black text with gold initial A
  • 2, 7th C. Indian illuminated page on handmade paper

INCUNABULA:
  • B-655, A noble fragment, being a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, 1454
  • INCUN 1475 .D5, Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosphorum; Nicolas Jensen, Venice, 1475

INCUNABULA AND EARLY PRINTED BOOK PAGES:
  • 17, Schedel, Hartmann, Nuremburg Chronicle; Anton Koberger, Nuremburg, 1493
  • 21, Varagine, Jacobus, The Golden Legend; Wynken de Worde, Westminster, 1498
  • 27, Lucretius Carus, Titus; Aldus Manutius, Venice, 1515 (1501?)
  • 39, Vesalius, Andreas, Anatomy; Johannes Oporinus, Basle, 1555
  • 61, Virgil, Opera; John Baskerville, Birmingham, 1757
  • 64, Thomson, The Seasons; Giambattista Bodoni, Parma, 1794
  • PAT-119, Fuchs, Leonhart, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes ..., Basil, 1542  Probably the first book that contains not only the names, but also the portraits of its illustrators.
  • PAT-43, Fuchs, Leonhart, Plantarum effigies, 1549
  • E-735, Descartes, Rene, Specimina Philosphia . . .; L. Elzevir, Amsterdam, 1644

ARTS & CRAFTS/EARLY FINE PRESS PRINTING
  • B-737, Chaucer, Geoffrey, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1896
  • PRBF-29 v.1 , Voragine, Jacobus, The Golden Legend, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1892
  • PRB-499, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, Hand & soul, Kelmscott Press, 1895.
  • D-2283, Ecclesiastes; The Roycrofters, (Elbert Hubbard), East Aurora, New York, 1896
  • E-91, Synge, John M., Poems & Translations; Elizabeth Yeats, Cuala Press, Dublin, 1908
  • E-2791, Shakespeare, Wm., Sonnets of Shakespeare; The Roycrofters, 1899    BIG initials.
  • TBM WS-25:1, Shakespeare, Wm., Sonnets; Thomas Bird Mosher, Portland, ME, 1901    Quiet.

CONTEMPORARY FINE PRESS BOOKS
  • C-2143, Shakespeare, Wm., Venus and Adonis; Pyracantha Press, Tempe, AZ, 1984
  • B-214, Shakespeare, Wm., Antony and Cleopatra, Circle Press, London, 1979    Unbound “artist’s book.”
  • C-1828, Conran, Anthony, Claim, Claim, Claim, Circle Press, London, 1969
  • C-1984, Furnival, John, Blind date, with etchings and embossed prints by John Furnival; text by Thomas Meyer, Circle Press, Guildford, England, 1979

ARTISTS' BOOKS
  • PXL-390, Szirtes, George, Mirrors, Circle Press, London, 2005
  • AB-129, King, Ronald, Tabernacle: hole, horse & hell-box, Circle Press, 2001    Wooden box w/ drawers of type.
  • E-4573   Walter Hamady, For The Hundredth Time “Gaebboerjabb Number (5) Five” 1981
  • AB-83  John Risseeuw, Roadkill, 2001
  •  AB-116  Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, Ode to a Grand Staircase (For Four Hands), 2001
  • ?   Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, Glimpse
  • SPEC E-7939  Claire Van Vliet, Greed, Vermont : Janus Press, 2013
  • E-5692, Weston, Heather, Read (past, tense), London: Bookart, 2000     Hidden text.
  • AB-123, Weston, Heather, A Diction, Bookery, London, 2004     Shaped page accordion.
  • AB-92, Rios, Alberto, Inside Chance, Picnic Press, Phoenix, AZ, 2000    A rotating flexagon cube.
  • A-234, Bukowski, Charles, Can’t win, Strong Silent Type Press, St. Paul, MN, 2009
  • B-755, Corso, Gregory, BOMB, London: Kamikaze Press, 2008    First reprint of a 1958 beat poem.
  • B-745 Ursula K. Le Guin, Direction of the Road, 2007
  • SPEC D-5345  Bryant, Sarah, Biography, [Aurora, NY] : Big Jump Press, 2010.
  • Sarah Bryant
  • C-3546 Metal Type, [Vancouver, British Columbia] : HM, 2013.
  • B-784 Martha Ronk, My Partial Tongue, Simi Valley, CA : Pie in the Sky Press, 2011.
  • SPEC E-7937 Rodriguez, Jenna, Life in the Driver’s Seat, Chicago, 2011 
ASU/Herberger Institute School of Art/Printmaking/Book Arts
Heather Green: heather.j.green@asu.edu
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