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(Allix, Susan) Nonsense & Nonsense. Artist’s book by Susan Allix. London. 2008. 75p. 11.25″ x 9″.Four etchings (one hand-colored and one with a second shadow printing), a lino-cut, block prints and various borders, dots and signs. It is made up of a variety of mould-made papers, including Arches, Somerset and Zerkall, which vary in size and sometimes have cut-outs. Typefaces include Grotesque, Granby, Gill and Gallia, with Caslon, Bodoni, Engravers Roman and altered and un-altered wood letter. These are printed letterpress, by hand; with new intaglio plates and linocuts and old printer’s blocks. Binding is of assembled paper squares over boards; the spine black leather and the edges black lacquered paper making a wavy-line frame for the paintings which are mounted and applied off-centre to the squares. Special copies have all edges in leather. The endpapers are bronze paper with handmade bronze-flecked paper doublures, cream fly-leaves and lettered in red. Contained in a cream, portfolio-style folder. One in an edition of 24 copies, signed by Susan Allix. Fine. New.

“Five small paintings were made, relating to the text, and then printed digitally using archival inks. The book and binding were then working together without the paintings necessarily being moveable, so this is the main edition binding, with a few copies made with magnets set into the front board over black and white drawings and the paintings mounted on magnetised squares.” – Allix.

Related items: Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009