CHOSES GRADUELLEMENT BANG / Voss - Daive

Things gradually bang

based on a reading of "Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein, illustrated with 4 woodcuts by Jan Voss.

It was directly at the letterpress with the complicity of the craftsman Christian Mameron that Jan Voss produced this series of 4 lost wood engravings (The wooden plate is re-engraved between each pass of color by the artist.)

Artist's book printed in 75 copies.

*50 numbered from 1 to 50.

*15 copies EA justified from I to XV to the author and the artist.

* 10 copies lettered from A to J reserved for book artisans.

The text by Jean Daive, composed by hand in Garamont body 16 and Jan Voss woodblocks, was printed on the typographic presses of the RLD workshop.

The text pages are punctuated with original typographic vignettes drawn by Voss.

The four woodcuts are signed by Jan Voss, the colophon by the author and the artist.

Completed printing by Christian Mameron on February 26, 1999 at the Métairie Bruyère graphic art center in Parly en Puisaye.

Arches vellum paper.

Red canvas case-folder box.

Éditions RLD 1999