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Alethiometer [Truth Meter].
Davidson, Laura.
[Boston, MA]: 2003.
Price: $4,500.00
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Anonymous Women - lost & found. Nine Drypoints.
Davidson, Laura.
Boston, MA: 2011.
Price: $1,000.00
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Culinaria.
Davidson, Laura.
[Boston, MA]: 2009.
Price: $1,250.00
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Flora and Fauna.
Davidson, Laura.
Boston: 2008.
Price: $2,750.00
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Artist's book, one of 10 copies, each signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, Laura Davidson, on the colophon. Page size: 6-13/16 inches x 5-7/16 inches; 10pp. + frontis woodcut and colophon as endpapers. There are two pages pop-up prints, and 4 other pages of original prints. Bound by the artist: black cloth with title inset on front panel on cream stock printed in gray, fine. The artist states in the colophon that she intends this book to be a tribute to Giovanni Braccelli, who in 1624 in Livorno, created a series of etchings in a book called BIZZARIE DI VARIE FIGURE. She examined one of the two surviving copies at the Library of Congress, and the playful, acrobatic and quite modern figures of Braccelli stayed with her. She has reinterpreted them here as pop-up elements made from original prints accomplished in gray ink, the first two with the added elements of copper links and white string.
Homage Braccelli.
Davidson, Laura.
Boston: 2005.
Price: $800.00
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Artist's book, one of 30 copies, all on Rives BFK and hinged with rice paper, all signed by the artist, Laura Davidson, on the colophon in ink. Page size: 7-1/8 inches x 5-1/8 inches, 26pp. Bound by the artist in hand-painted boards showing map in blue and tan with brown and blue decorated border, metal compass inset into front panel with loop top of compass painted onto the board, with black book tape covering sewn spine, endpapers are original woodcuts by the artist meant to reproduce old map, fine. There are six pop-up elements are on canson paper in brown, blue, pink, gray, and tan. Each page is an original woodcut, some collaged, some in color, with antique stamps and other decorative devices. The artist has chosen Boston, Straits of Mackinac and Florence, Italy for pop-ups. The artist states she was inspired by a 1570 Ortelius Atlas and that the maps, floor plans, buildings and bridges in this book create the blueprint of her physical work.
Mapping My World. Buildings Bridges.
Davidson, Laura.
Boston: 2002.
Price: $1,100.00
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Artist's book, one of 20 copies, all on Frankfurt white paper, each page dyed with Lavazza espresso, numbered and signed and dated in pencil by the artist, Laura Davidson, on the colophon. Page size: 6-5/16 inches x 4-1/4 inches; 38 pages, 3 of which are double fold or lift-up. Bound: hand-painted red boards with gold gilt, black painted edges, black book tape over sewn spine, endpapers of maps scanned from 1893 Italian Baedeker Italy book, fine. This is the second in a series of artists' books incorporating old travel guidebooks. The artists has scanned pages from an 1893 Italian Baedeker and then added to the resulting pages with collaged woodcuts, woodcuts and linoleum cuts printed over the Baedeker page, i.e. print of table set with wine, glasses and artichoke on plate, over the entry for "restaurants" as a fold-over page and print. Following the entry for the Vatican is a double page woodcut of the top of the Vatican roof with the disciples outlined against the sky. The Biblioteca Vaticana entry is cut out with a woodcut of an old book collaged to the page with opens to a picture of the library. Other collages are found - always put in strategic places guaranteed to bring a smile to the reader. The colophon is headed with S.P.Q.R. (acronym for Latin noun phrase meaning "The Senate and the People of Rome" referring to the government of ancient Rome). The colophon is completed by a linoleum cut of a traditional espresso pot in black printed on gray paper and collaged at the bottom of the page.
Rome. Travel Guide Series.
Davidson, Laura.
Boston: 2003.
Price: $750.00
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Artist's Book, one of 25 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist, all on rives BFK and Frankfurt cream paper. Page size: 6-1/2 x 4-3/4". Bound: wood boards with leather spine, boards carved and painted representing Galileo's heliocentric celestial spheres. New. Illustrated with 17 linoleum prints of images, maps and text, some hand colored, of tools, navigation, astronomy, nature, and engineering. The artist tells us that USEFUL KNOWLEDGE is inspired by years of curiosity about early science. "When I look at a rare book the text is often incomprehensible to me, because of the language or letter form. The book, then, becomes a while visual object, rather than something that needs to be read to be understood." One of the pages holds a volvelle (movable circle) for astronomical calculations. A lovely book and book object.
Useful Knowledge.
Davidson, Laura.
Boston: 1998.
Price: $900.00
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One of 20 copies each signed and numbered by the artist. Page size: 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". Bound: painted red boards with black leather spine, ceramic laid onto front panel in white with beige border surrounding a black antique vase with the title in black lettering, screwed on with two brass screws. Illustrated with 10 woodcuts that are cut-out and onlaid onto black french-fold apper with text written by the artist in white identifying the antique vases, e.g. "Etruscan Vase/Villa Giulia, Rome". Fine.
Vaso.
Davidson, Laura.
Boston: 1994.
Price: $700.00
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Artist's book, one of 24 copies only, each on Frankfurt paper, each copy signed and numbered by artist, Laura Davidson. Page size: double-sided pages are each 1-3/4 inches in diameter; 28pp. Bound: each double-side page is hinged with pink silk ribbon forming an accordion-style binding housed in a brass box measuring 2 x 2 x 5/8 inches, 7 buttons of various colors and shapes and sizes are "sewn" onto the top of the brass box lid, box lined with paper containing additional text, new. This book pays homage to Gertrude Stein's 1914 work TENDER BUTTONS. The text is typed on Frankfurt paper. The illustrated "buttons / pages" are painted with ink and wash. Text selections include, "Enthusiastically / hurting a / clouded yellow / bud and saucer," and "water raining" and "Water / astonishing / and difficult / altogether / makes a / meadow and / a stroke" among others. This is a delightful book - Laura Davidson's interpretation of Stein's word play is perfect.
Tender Buttons, tenderly.
Davidson, Laura. Stein, Gertrude.
Boston: 2006.
Price: $1,000.00
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