Research Catalog

Title

Interstices & intersections : thirteen Euclidean propositions / translated by Sir Thomas Little Heath ; commentary & illustrations by Russell Maret.

Author

Maret, Russell

Publication

• Manhattan and Brooklyn : Russell Maret, MMXIV [2014]
• [Brooklyn, N.Y.] : [Booklyn Artists Alliance]

Supplementary Content

Artist's description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Euclid
• Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940
• Loeber, Nancy
• Kelm, Daniel E.
• Wide Awake Garage, binder

Description

1 volume (58 unnumbered pages on 2 folded sheets) : color illustrations; 35 cm

Summary

• "Designed, illustrated, and printed by Russell Maret in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The typefaces are Gremolata, Cancellaresca Milanese, Saturn, Saturn Shadow and Texto Portuguez, all of which were designed by the printer. The text and the images were printed from photo-polymer plates on a Vandercook Universal III proof press. Nancy Loeber assisted in the studio and prepared the sheets for binding"--Colophon.
• Consists of a double strip composed of 30 sheets joined end to end (15 per side) and folded accordion-style, with first and last leaf on each side attached to separate boards as pastedowns; the text runs continuously from front to back and the book must be flipped over in order to be read through.
• An illustrated edition of thirteen propositions from Heath's translation of Euclid's Elements of geometry with Maret's personal prose commentary on geometry, literature, and letterforms.

Alternative Title

• Interstices and intersections
• Interstices & intersections, or An autodidact comprehends a cube
• Autodidact comprehends a cube

Subjects

• Elements (Euclid)
• Geometry > Early works to 1800
• Geometry in art
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Saturn
• Artists' books > United States > 21st century
• Accordion fold format (Binding)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Saturn Shadow
• Early works
• Maret, Russell
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Cancellaresca Milanese
• Euclid > Elements
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Texto Portuguez
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Gremolata

Genre/Form

• Accordion fold format (Binding)
• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Gremolata.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Cancellaresca Milanese.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Saturn.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Saturn Shadow.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Texto Portuguez.
• Early works.

Note

• "There are three editions: Seventy-five copies, numbered 1-71 and AP 1-AP 4, are printed on mould-made Zerkall Litho 270gm paper ... Sixteen copies, numbered I-XIII and AP I-AP III, are printed on a specially devised cotton and abaca Twinrocker Handmade Paper made by Travis Becker. They are ... accompanied by a second volume of state and progressive proofs of the proposition matching the book's number. ... One copy, lettered E ... is accompanied by a complete, unbound set of state & progressive proofs which are housed in three cloth covered clamshell boxes"--Colophon.
• This record describes the seventy-five copies numbered 1-71 and AP 1-AP 4 as outlined in the colophon.
• Includes a sheet of handling and display instructions.

Binding (note)

• "Daniel Kelm bound and boxed the book at the Wide Awake Garage"--Colophon. Teal goatskin and dark gray paper-covered boards, without spine; housed in a black and white warp and weft cloth-covered clamshell box with teal goatskin spine label, lettered in white.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2014 16-8

LCCN

PML 196039

OCLC

881523411

Author

Maret, Russell, book artist.

Title

Interstices & intersections : thirteen Euclidean propositions / translated by Sir Thomas Little Heath ; commentary & illustrations by Russell Maret.

Publisher

Manhattan and Brooklyn : Russell Maret, MMXIV [2014]

Distributor

[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : [Booklyn Artists Alliance]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 52; signed by Russell Maret.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy lacks sheet of handling and display instructions.

Binding

"Daniel Kelm bound and boxed the book at the Wide Awake Garage"--Colophon. Teal goatskin and dark gray paper-covered boards, without spine; housed in a black and white warp and weft cloth-covered clamshell box with teal goatskin spine label, lettered in white.

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Artist's description

Place of Publication

United States New York New York.

Added Author

Container of (expression): Euclid. Elements. Selections. English.

Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940, translator.

Loeber, Nancy.

Kelm, Daniel E., binder.

Wide Awake Garage, binder.

Other Standard Identifier

PML 196039

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2014 16-8