Janus Press – The Tower of Babel: An Anthology. 1975.
(Janus Press) The Tower of Babel: An Anthology. 1975. Illustrated with seventeen lithographs and one wood engraving by Claire Van Vliet. Ten unbound folios and ten loose sheets with title slip sheets attached. 12.5″ x 10″. Designed and letterpress printed by Claire Van Vliet. Lithographs printed from stone. Titles and text handset. Printed in black with acknowledgment page in tan on ivory Zerkall Butten with Kozu slipsheets and ivory Zerkall Butten wrapper, boxed in tan buckram. No. 2 in an edition of 100 copies signed by the artist. Fine.
An anthology of the following texts: “Legend of the Chin” by Sir James George Scott; the Genesis text on the “Tower of Babel,” “The Great Wall and the Tower of Babel,” “The Pit of Babel,” and “The City Coat of Arms” by Franz Kafka; and “Builders of Babel, Ten Portraits” with quotations from Proverbs. This publication was assisted in part by a grant from the Vermont Council on the Arts, Inc.
Related items: Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009, Claire Van Vliet, Franz Kafka, Janus Press