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[Janus Press] Van Vliet, Claire and Katie MacGregor (pulp painting); commentaries by Rosemary Radford Ruether; translation by KaBiblio.com

The Gospel of Mary

ref. 11635Newark VT: Janus Press 2006. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 40 4 pp. pop-up. Limited edition one of 150 numbered copies. Signed by Van Vliet Holden Miller-Brown. Bound by Audrey Holden in pulp-painted covers by Van Vliet and Katie MacGregor. who also created the pulp painting background for the centerpiece pop-up. Text is printed in Victor Hammer's American Uncial with wraparound commentary in Monotype Plantin by Andrew Miller-Brown. All housed in a paste-paper over boards clamshell with birch sides; boldly titled on the spine. A fine copy. A remarkable rendering of the 2nd century Gnostic Gospel. Van Vliet's edition is a wonderful marriage of early and modern printing: the design echoing early printing islands of text within a sea of commentary. Similarly the choice of American Uncial a typeface modeled by Hammer after early letterforms from a century near to the time of this gospel's composition recalls early books. But this is a remarkably modern printing with modern abstracted embellishments where we would expect to find illuminated illustration in an early manuscript. Every page of the scholarly edition is visually engaging-a rare marriage indeed! As if this exceptional design was not enough "the reader" in the words of John A. Buchtel "reaches the center of the book and unexpectedly the pop-up explodes out of the mottled purple and blue pulp painted page spread in the vivid multiple colors of Katie MacGregor's handmade papers. Its abstract design echoes the diagrams elsewhere in the book and its sense of rising expansiveness is reinforced by the radiating silver paper strips woven through the surface of the pulp painting. . . . The pop-up is emblematic perhaps of a sudden realization-an epiphany-as the soul moves 'upward from its bondage to the flesh and the lower world to its liberation in the higher celestial realm.'" p. 48. A stunning work. Buchtel John A. The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Papermaking Collaborations 2024. Janus Press unknown

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA · Estados Unidos1650,00 US$≈ 1471,24 €

[Janus Press] [Plowboy Press] Aratus | art by Claire Van Vliet; translated by Stanley Lombardo; commentary by Mark BreenBiblio.com

Phaenomena / Sky Sign

ref. 9788Newark and Burke VT: Janus Press and Plowboy Press 2022. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Folio. 4 58 4 pp. plates maps illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Letterpress printed on Barcham Green Boxley by Andrew Miller-Brown of Plowboy Press. The frontispiece is Durer's northern celestial map. There are 28 illustrations of the constellations from Caspar Vopel's 1534 woodcuts and eight full-page original digital prints of weather by Claire Van Vliet based on her pulp paintings. Additionally there are numerous in-text illustrations some mounted some printed. This is sewn longstitch into pulp-painting covered boards by Katie MacGregor; pocket inside the front cover contains prospectus and Translator's Introduction and Notes. The book is wrapped in a linen-covered chemise lined with Durer's 1515 celestial maps all housed in maple and birchwood slipcase with a lasercut title on the spine. A fine copy. Aratus was born in Soli in present day Turkey in about 315 BCE. Educated in Athens he eventually made his way to the Macedonian court where it is believed he wrote the Phaenomena. It describes in verse the constellations their rotation in the night sky throughout the year various other natural signs and their uses as a calendar and weather forecasting tool for farmers and sailors. For Aratus these sky signs from the constellation Ursa Major to the smallest mouse tossing straw with its paws represent a gift from Zeus to guide human endeavor if only we would take notice. The Phaenomena was enormously popular in its time and afterwards. It inspired many translations some with a liberal dose of revisions and additions as well as many commentaries starting in at least the second century BCE. This edition of the Phaenomena features a verse translation from the Greek by Stanley Lombardo and a new commentary for the modern reader by Mark Breen senior meteorologist and director of the planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury Vermont. And while it is easy to get caught up in the interesting particulars of the book and its history as well as the particulars of this edition Van Vliet Miller-Brown and their collaborators have created an edition that has reinvigorated this millennia-old navigational and practical treatise. This edition is full of wonder. MacGregor's pulp painted covers are haunting and exquisitely suited for the work. And further the book designed with a mind towards early scholarly works with Aratus's text surrounded by commentary and illustration is a joy to leaf through every page spread is visually engaging from the early section on the constellations to the section on weather that is elevated by Van Vliet's art. After 70 years of bookmaking Van Vliet has not stopped pushing forward in her design and vision. Janus Press and Plowboy Press unknown

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA · Estados Unidos2750,00 US$≈ 2452,07 €

[Janus Press] Hulme, Keri | art by Claire Van VlietBiblio.com

The Silences Between Moeraki Conversations

ref. 9785Newark VT: Janus Press 2016. Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 114 pp. frontis. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Signed by Hulme and Van Vliet. Bound using a woven strip binding designed by Claire Van Vliet; the covers are a dynamic pulp-painting with a vitreograph frontispiece with five additional illustrations that were digitally composed by Van Vliet and are original archival inkjet prints on handmade paper; these seem to blend photography and Van Vliet's pulp painting creating a striking and textured result. This is accompanied by a small octavo glossary with eight letterpress pages and fold-out photograph. All laid into a clamshell box of paper boards with acrylic-painted fore-edge and moon inset on the spine; map of Moeraki mounted inside the upper cover; maple and tamarack sides. Housed in slipcase with printed title label. A fine copy. Among the most ambitious projects of the Press it is one of the largest at 114 pages and the longest projects of the Press taking 20 years from contact to completion. Each of the 6 "Conversations" are printed on different handmade papers many of which have varying leaf sizes. The poetry by Booker Prize-winning author of Bone People Keri Hulme rewards attention and patience. Similarly Van Vliet's books require more attention from the reader and Silences is no exception. For instance in one "conversation" she varies the page size and relationship-some leaves being half-page strips on the lower portion of the book can be paged through while sequences of cutouts and illustrations along the top remain are turned less frequently creating a constancy. Even the form of the book can be altered: the page-spread illustrations for instance can be pulled forward at the inner fold making what was two dimensional into three-dimensional. One can do this with all the illustrations simultaneously creating what Van Vliet describes in her Notes for Press Patrons "a three dimensional wagon wheel display." This book is a beautiful choreography between text image and form-all elements in harmony. Buchtel John A. The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Papermaking Collaborations 2024. Janus Press unknown

Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA · Estados Unidos2750,00 US$≈ 2452,07 €

Cruquius, Jacobus, Janus Dousa, [et al]Biblio.com

Q. Horatius Flaccus: cum commentariis & enarrationibus commentatoris veteris et Jacobi Cruquii Messenii . Accesserunt Jani Dousae Nordovicis in eundem commentariolus unà cum Succidaneâ appendice ad superiorem commentariolum. Item auctarium commentatoris veteris à Cruquio editi

1597ref. 70284Lugduni Batavorum: ex officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium 1597. 4to pp. 16 695 17; collating: â´ 4 A-Zâ´ a-3uâ´; printer's woodcut device on title page; woodcut initials; text in double column; contemporary full limp parchment with extensive ink notation on upper cover and titling on spine; early ownership inscription at the bottom of the title page of Zanius Dacier dated 1602. The cover notes quote Martin Marie Charles de Boudens Vanderbourg who edited an edition of Horace in 1812 so this quote likely dates to after 1812. The complete annotated Horace by the humanist Cruquius 1520-1584 who was Latin schoolmaster at Bruges. The 'commentator vetus' known as Commentator Cruquianus "is a collection of scholia published by Cruquius from various mss. notably the four codices blandinii which were destroyed by fire in 1566 with the Benedictine abbey Blandigny near Ghent" OCLC. "'Cruquius' says Dr. Harwood 'is deservedly esteemed one of the best commentators on Horace. Consult the notes in these editions on any of the difficult passages in Horace and you will have your doubts satisfactorily solved.' Barthius and Tanaquil Faber think but slightly of Cruquius: they observe and in this observation Mitscherlich seems to concur that he has performed little more than the old commentators Acro and Porphyrio. Harles thinks that Cruquius is not equal to Lambinus in research ingenuity and general critical knowledge: yet Baxter has not scrupled to call Lambinus Cruquius and Torrentius the 'tria Horatii lumina'" Dibdin. Adams H-946; Dibdin Greek and Latin Classics 4th ed. II 96; Graesse III 352; Mills College Check List 250; Riedel-Horatiana A-61. ex officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium unknown

Rulon-Miller Books · Estados Unidos2875,00 US$≈ 2563,53 €

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