Twenty-One Years, Twenty-One Prints and Suites

by Van Sandwyk, Charles

$18,163 · Offered by Biblio

Vancouver, BC: Charles Van Sandwyk, 2007. Square folio (33.1cm x 29cm). Fine art designer binding in full brown calf with lighter brown coloured onlay panels. Gilt decoration with beetle motif on front and back boards. Gilt title and date on flat spine with four gilt stamped beetles. Hand tied headcaps. Original paste paper end papers. Title page decorated by hand with gilt details and orange lines. Large frontispiece etching of a rhino that measures 12cm x 19cm. Gratitude page with four etchings and a brief paragraph written by Van Sandwyk in December 1986. Artist statement and list of illustrations included. 62 total sepia etchings with original plate tissues. Etchings are either tipped in or directly printed on page throughout text. Etching sizes range from 2.5cm x 2.5cm to 20cm x 25cm. Text was hand set in Centaur Duensing Titling at Heavenly Monkey Press printed on a Washington handpress. The paper is Somerset. Bound by Claudia Cohen in her Seattle studio. Olive green cloth clamshell box with spine strip made from matching material to the end papers. Decorative orange leather label with gilt title. Minor wear to the boxes label. An attractive copy of Van Sandwyk s scarcest work. A collection of etchings, including some that had been lost , dating back to 1983. 10 limited editions, each titled with a different person who inspired Van Sandwyk s work, as well as three 3 hors commerce copies. The limited editions are named Albrecht, Arthur, Beatrix, Dorothy, Kahlil, Kenneth,

• Publisher: Charles Van Sandwyk
• Year: 2007
• Binding: hardcover

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