Detail View: RIT CARY GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION: Match in a Bottle

Filename: 
cc20200928_GENEST_001
Identifier: 
cc20200928_GENEST_001
Title: 
Match in a Bottle
Creator: 
Knapp, Tracey
Creator: 
Gohde, Kurt, artist
Subject: 
Poetry
Subject: 
Blind tooled bindings
Subject: 
Onlays (Binding)
Summary: 
Includes "smoke drawings" by Kurt Gohde "Limited to fifty books numbered 1 through 50. An additional fifteen books, lettered A through O, are not for sale"-Colophon Bound in full leather (grey Oasis) laced-in with partial exposed spine and sewing. Tooled onlays in relief in marbled papers and tooled onlays in patinated copper leaves. Insertion of brass mesh coloured in copper in-between the boards. The top edge is painted. Doublures are coloured Arches pur chiffon paper recessed inlays in marbled paper and tooled onlays in coloured and lacquered Japanese paper. Clamshell case covered in black cloth and irregular patches of marbled paper recessed inlays; black-stamped lettering across inlays on spine; copper metallic paper along edges of case.
Publisher: 
Kat Ran Press
Contributor: 
Genest, Louise, binder
Date of Original: 
1997
Date of Digitization: 
2020
Broad Type: 
still image
Specific Type: 
fine bindings
Digital File Format: 
jpeg
Physical Format: 
books
Dimensions of Original: 
32 cm
Language: 
English
Original Item Location: 
Specimen Genest K67 1997
Library Collection: 
Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on the History and Practice of Bookbinding
Digital Project: 
2020_0050_specimens
Digital Project: 
2020_0010_middleton
Catalog Record: 
https://albert.rit.edu/record=b3463463~S3
Place: 
Massachusetts - North Andover
Rights: 
RIT Libraries makes materials from its collections available for educational and research purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. It is your responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form.
Rights: 
RIT Libraries makes materials from its collections available for educational and research purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. It is your responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form.
Notes: 
This item's original binding was removed and rebound to commemorate the Bookbinding 2000 Conference in June 2000 which celebrated the opening of the Bernard C. Middleton Collection within the Cary Graphic Arts Collection.