Warming Down: Photographs by Stephen Gill (Unique Copy).
London: Nobody, 2008. Limited Edition. Octavo. Artist's edition from Stephen Gill, in which he issued a new series of his Hackney Wick photographs in unique fashion, via a series of interventions to 130 withdrawn books from the Hackney Public Library system. In this case: Gill affixed 15 C-type hand prints (4.5 inches square) into an Ernst Eulenburg edition of Bach's Cantata No. 55 (circa 1930), along with a sun-etched lino print (with burn-marks), a pressed flower, shoe and bicycle tire prints, drawings, and various letterpress elements. SIGNED by Gill to final leaf and hand-stamped as copy 94 of 130. Cloth library binding with repairs to hinges; prints are fine. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.
Item #30765
Price: $1,200.00