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Codex espangliensis : from Columbus to the border patrol

Title: Codex espangliensis : from Columbus to the border patrol / Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya.
Author: Gómez-Peña, Guillermo.
Publication: [Santa Cruz, Calif.] : Moving Parts Press, c1998.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 1998 10-80	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

[30] p. : col. ill.; 23 x 29 cm.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bernhard Gothic.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bulletin Script.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Doric Ornament.
Wood types (Type evidence)

Note

"50 signed and numbered books bound in Amatl paper over boards by Maureen Carey. 1-45 cased in portfolios, I-V boxed with unique inclusions"--Colophon, on pastedown of portfolio.
Cover title.
"Performance texts by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, collage images by Enrique Chagoya, bookwork designed and printed by Felicia Rice, using digital types: Caslon, Cochin, Copperplate, Gill Sans, Hiroshige, Künstler Script, Ultra Condensed Sans Serif, Univers; hand set metal type: Bernhard Gothic; and hand set wooden types: Bulletin Script, Doric Ornament. Letterpress printed from zinc engravings on Mexican Amatl paper lined with Japanese Shintengujo tissue"--Colophon.
Also published in a trade edition: San Francisco : City Lights Books, 2000.
Printed in red-brown and black on one side of a strip formed from 15 joined sheets, folded accordion style; first and last pages attached to upper and lower boards. Opens on left-hand side of boards, but each panel (double-page spread) reads from left to right. Size of unfolded strip: 23 x 945 cm.

Binding (note)

Publisher's red-brown illustrated paper boards; black paper labels on both boards, printed in white. In portfolio of Canapetta black book cloth and Amatl paper, with black paper label on front.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1998 10-80

ISBN

093995222X
9780939952229

LCCN

2002554568

OCLC

38957787

Author

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo.

Title

Codex espangliensis : from Columbus to the border patrol / Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya.

Imprint

[Santa Cruz, Calif.] : Moving Parts Press, c1998.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 39/45; signed by Gómez-Peña, Chagoya and Felicia Rice.

Binding

Publisher's red-brown illustrated paper boards; black paper labels on both boards, printed in white. In portfolio of Canapetta black book cloth and Amatl paper, with black paper label on front.

Local Note

Accompanied by prospectus ([16] p. : ill.).

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

California Santa Barbara.

Added Author

Chagoya, Enrique.

Rice, Felicia. Printer

Moving Parts Press. Printer

Carey, Maureen. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1998 10-80

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