Le temps, lui = Time being
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Le temps, lui = Time being
Other titles: Time being
Classmark: Artists' Books 294
Creator(s): Vasiliu, Anca
Additional creator(s): Karshan, Linda (1947-) (Illustrator); Chase, Michael (1959-) (Translator); Sykes, Richard (1946-2019) (Former owner); Mason, Penny (Former owner); Hope Sufferance Press (Printer)
Publisher: Editions Signum
Publication city: Paris
Date(s): 2000
Language: French
Size and medium: [23] pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/783020
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020822145205181
Description
Title from cover; statement of responsibility from colophon.
Vasiliu's text is printed chiefly in French on rectos, with the English translation on versos (facing etchings), and one passage from Plato's Timaeus printed in Greek.
Printed at the Hope Sufferance Press, London.
Limited edition of 30 numbered copies on Somerset with 10 original etchings, and 200 additional copies on Somerset Book with black and white reproductions of etchings.
Leeds University Library's copy is number 15 of 30, signed by the artist on rear flyleaf.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 294: folded, unbound leaves in cream printed wrappers, in grey-blue cloth box with silver lettering.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 294: Gift from the collection of Richard Sykes and Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society. Purchased by Richard Sykes and Penny Mason in 2002 from The Redfern Gallery.
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