“What to make of this—secret bibliography, quizzical spotter’s guide, collection of poems, twentieth-century type sampler… A picture book—not merely as a series of visual compositions but because only its own paratexts are truly textual—the contents are illustrations, absorbing, not discursive. An art of reading is evoked; the hint of the unprinted pages. Not another book—at this stage, it’s not the same… Not just another book: another book book. L’histoire de l’édition epitomised as lists of editions, found in colophons, all the other data about who, what and where effaced. Drawing attention to how books are rarely and briefly novel or singular: most books are another—edition, impression, reprint or translation; and in their intervals, the history they entered re-edits them.”—Elizabeth James
Text fragments of publication history for unnamed books, taken from colophons and reprinted here in, what we must assume to be, their original font, size and position on the page, leading to an eclectic and dynamic collection of sentences revealing the life paths of books.
Soft cover, 112 pages, 23,5 x 14 cm, Axminster 2022
ISBN 978-1-910010-29-7
