Janus Press. Tate, Nahum
DIDO AND AENEAS
(West Burke), 1990. . 6 1/2 x 14 1/2 (opening to 70 inches in 3 overlapping sections). Accordion-folded paperwork landscape collage with five varying and irregular sized text pamphlets sewn into each of five openings. Housed in black cloth tray case with paper spine label. Front pocket holds a CD recording of the Opera, in chemise; rear pocket contains empty chemise for the owner's own CD. Fine copy of this colorful and exhuberant book. One of 150 copies signed by the artist/printer Claire Van Vliet. Printed on paper made by Van Vliet, along with Twinrocker and other handmade papers.
[Bookseller: The Veatchs Arts of the Book]
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