She Who Saw With Her Heart / Roni Gross; Najah Al-Rawi;

Identifier:FA.B39.0672

Dimensions:26 leaves : ill. (1 col.) ; 24 x 28 cm

Creation dates:1997

also created by: Barbara Mauriello, Barry Magid, Najah Al-Rawi

Subjects: artists' books, blind embossing, folk tales, letterpress printing, pamphlet bindings

Description:CBA copy 1. Number 19 in an Edition of 25; signed by the artist. Pamphlet bound book housed within a hard bound gate fold cover with navy blue fabric and a brass clasp. "She Who Saw With Her Heart was designed, letterpress printed from magnesium and photopolymer plates and bound by Roni Gross at the Center for Book Arts. Text is set in Post Antiqua, and printed on Somerset paper, with calligraphy by Najah Al-Rawi"--Colophon. "There are 50 copies, printed in two editions: twenty-five numbered 1-25 are reserved for Patron Level members of the Center for Book Arts; the remaining twenty-five, numbered i-xx, with five additional artist proofs, were printed on Somerset and Hiromi papers and bound in brocade"--Colophon. Text comprises four signatures gathered in fours, with the illustrations printed on translucent sheets inserted as overlays in the 2nd and 3rd signatures, on the first leaf of the last signature and on translucent sheet inserted in last signature. First leaf of first signature has blind-impressed design and title in Arabic; last 2 leaves in the last signature are blank; last leaf slides into a pocket in the portfolio cover. Illustrations comprise 8 reproductions of monochrome calligraphic brush and ink drawings resembling doorways, printed from polymer plates on translucent Hiromi paper; 1 full-page collograph on Somerset paper; 1 design depicting a hennaed hand and 1 reproduction of calligraphic design, on Hiromi paper. Text blocks making up the story are printed in different shapes, which fit within the frames formed by the "doorways" upon the Hiromi paper overlays preceding them.