Research Catalog

Title

An edible alphabet.

Author

Cohen, Claudia, 1953-

Publication

Seattle : Claudia Cohen, Bookbinder, 2010.

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Details

Description

[33] p. : col. ill.; 12 cm. in box 13 x 12 x 2 cm.

Summary

• Artist's book, in which each page features 3 stenciled forms of a letter of the alphabet, surrounded by the names of foods starting with that letter, either rubber-stamped (stamps from Cohen's collection of early 20th-century rubber stamps used in restaurants to create the daily menu) or handwritten in Cohen's calligraphy.
• Printed on French-folded double leaves of vintage laid paper.

Subject

• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Alphabet in art
• Food > Terminology

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Alphabet books – United States – 21st century.
• Rubber stamp art.

Note

• Limited edition of 30 copies.
• Title page and colophon are handwritten in ink, except for printed label "Claudia Cohen, Bookbinder" mounted on colophon leaf

Binding (note)

• Sewn long-stitch onto 3 vellum slips, which are laced into a binding structure designed by Cohen, made from 18th- and 19th-century parchment documents. Issued in a marbled cloth-covered clamshell box with calligraphed paper spine label.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 12-215

OCLC

690980729

Author

Cohen, Claudia, 1953-

Title

An edible alphabet.

Imprint

Seattle : Claudia Cohen, Bookbinder, 2010.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 5/30.

Binding

Sewn long-stitch onto 3 vellum slips, which are laced into a binding structure designed by Cohen, made from 18th- and 19th-century parchment documents. Issued in a marbled cloth-covered clamshell box with calligraphed paper spine label.

Place of Publication

United States Washington (State) Seattle.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 12-215