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(Sara Langworthy) First Visit. Artist’s book by Sara Langworthy. Coreopsis Press. 2001. 8.75” x 7”. Conceived and assembled in the winter, using transparencies of etchings, with U1CB kozo, Japanese book cloth and 2-ply museum board. Six ‘leaves’ of board, covered with black cloth with rectangular plate inset and held in place with string. Each plate illustrated and with minimal text. Smaller plates inset in both back and front boards. Grey cloth boards and blackcloth spine. One in an edition of 40 signed and datedcopies. Fine.

Langworthy writes that for best viewing, place in front of bright light.

“Sara Langworthy was trained in bookbinding, printing, and papermaking at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has been a resident artist at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. She currently divides her time between her studio in Minneapolis, and Iowa City, Iowa, where she teaches Bookbinding and Letterpress Printing. [Her work] can be found in a number of national collections, including the Walker Art Center and Yale University.” Women’s Studio Workshop Summer Arts Institute 2007.

This book was published with a grant from Women’s Studio Workshop, which is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts. An interesting structure to an innovative book.

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