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The Book of the Erinyes
http://www.bookoftheerinyes.com/journal/
This blog documents the progress of creation of the Book of the Erinyes, a handbound limited edition artist’s book.
- Added on: Aug 11th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: The Lazarus Corporation
- Listed in: Arts Mixed Media
- Tags: art greek mythology altered book artists book
Recent Posts
Letterpress video
I thought I’d share a very short video I put together from some clips of me printing out a page of the Book of the Erinyes. At some point in the not-too-distant future I’ll put together something a bit better, but in the meantime: ...
New Gallery Pages
Just a quick announcement that I’ve replaced the “Artwork” page on this site with a great little gallery script called Plogger. I’ve uploaded all the artwork so far, and will keep adding to it over the coming weeks. Anyway, ch...
Research in London
Yesterday I spent the day in London doing a whistle-stop tour of a few exhibitions as background research for the Book of the Erinyes. Bookbinding at the V&A First stop was the V&A in South Kensington to see a small display of Fine Bindings f...
Letterpress Update
I’ve been putting some hours into the Letterpress side of the Book of the Erinyes recently, and have made a fair bit of progress. Yesterday evening I managed to print out the text for the first section (there’s only one page of text per s...
Victorian Gothic Revival “Papier Mâché” Binding
One of the fashions of the “Gothic Revival” during the mid-1840s to 1860s was for “monastic” style bindings that imitated the Medieval wooden book covers. Rather than reproducing these in wood, the Victorians (presumably for r...
Marbled Paper
One of the elements of the handmade Book of the Erinyes will be the use of marbled paper – sometimes on the outside cover, and sometimes on the endpapers/inside cover. As with all the parts of the book, I’m determined to make it all mysel...
