Diderot project
By: Ken Botnick
Publisher: Emdash
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [St. Louis, Mo.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Artists' books; Encyclopédie
Other titles: Encyclopedia; Encyclopédie.
Description: A visual and textual meditation on concepts encountered in the Encyclopédie of Diderot. These concepts include the hand and craft, tools and machines, labor and leisure, memory, sensation, and perception.
Notes: "This edition was completed during the January thaw of 2015 in our print shop in the Pierce Arrow Building, St. Louis, and is the work of Ken Botnick, editor, author, designer, printer and publisher. Over 220 press runs ... are from the original Encyclopedia of Diderot, photographed by KB in Olin Library Special Collections at Washington University ... Papers used are Hahnemühle Bugra, black; Moriki, black and gray; Okawara, natural; Zerkall Book; and UV Ultra Clearfold ... The edition is bound by Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage, Easthampton, Massachusetts ... All texts from the Encyclopedia are set in Walbaum Book ... Selections from contemporary writers are set in various weights and styles of Trade Gothic ... Of 70 copies, this is number ... "--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 62; signed by the artist.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Memory : the hand, craft, & work; title: Reason : tools, objects, & materials; title: Imagination : sensation, perception, & the natural world.