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The White Moth / Carolyn Berry

Pamphlet bindings

FA.B16.0078
Fine Art Collection
5 leaves; 8 plates; 15 x 18.5 cm (5 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches)
1989
Carolyn Berry
Adelaide Crapsey
artists' books, copy art, multimedia works, pamphlet bindings, poetry
Pamphlet bound with hand stitched binding; black paper wrappers; front cover has hand-rendered silver metallic title text with hatch mark framing; printed clear plastic end papers. Title is handwritten on title page. Book is multi media, and consists of leaves of text that alternate with eight individual plates-- xeroxed photoreproduction, hand watercolored portraiture, xeroxed drawn portraits and appropriated published text and illustration. Text for the book is handwritten is taken from the work of the American poet, Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914).