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Discover Italian monuments : 12 color views / A. S. Lorenz.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorenz, Angela, book artist.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Lorenz, Angela.
- Artists' books--Specimens.
- Artists' books.
- Architecture--Italy--Pictorial works.
- Architecture.
- Monuments--Italy--Pictorial works.
- Monuments.
- Italy--Monuments--Pictorial works.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Artists' books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lorenz, Angela (autograph)
- Temple University Libraries (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (24 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 11 cm
- Other Title:
- Scoprire i monumenti italiani
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, Mass. : Angela Lorenz Artist Books, 1989.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Italian.
- Summary:
- A play on souvenir postcard books; all the buildings are obscured to some degree by scaffolding.
- Notes:
- Titles from covers and spine.
- "This is an artist book. It was made in Bologna, Italy in the end of 1989 ... This is an edition of 3,000 out of which 300 are numbered and signed"--Colophon.
- Pages printed on a continuous strip, 11 x 89 cm., folded accordion style to 11 x 8 cm.
- Each illustration has a handwritten caption in English in addition to the printed monument name.
- Printed in Bologna, Italy by Italcards by fotometalgrafica.--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy is number 68 of 300 and is signed by the artist.
- RBC copy is a gift from Temple University Libraries.
- OCLC:
- 28428648
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