never mind the press

Spotted One Day
2009. 5 1/4" x 5 1/8". Edition of 30.

A look at ladybugs and children. How do you get them to stay? Two women have different approaches. Letterpress printed from a linoleum block of carved leaves, wood type, handset metal Caslon Oldstyle type, and one photopolymer plate on Somerset 100% cotton paper. Also printed on bookcloth that wraps Davey board for the hard covers. The pages have flaps that fold up or down, with holes punched in them as well. The wood type words change as you interact with the flaps such that GROW becomes OW, for example. Coptic sewn with a curved needle using waxed red linen thread.

$225

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