Cartesian dreams
By: Mohns/Deschamps
Contributors: Deschamps, F.; Mohns, J., illustrator; Old Funeral Parlor; Descartes, René, 1596-1650
Publisher: Old Funeral Parlor
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Vinalhaven, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Artists' books; Toy and movable books; Specimens
Notes: In portfolio.

Title from portfolio.

"Cartesian dreams is an artists' book response to René Descartes' Discours de la methode, published in Leyden in 1637."--Colophon.

"A Papyrus production, 1994."--Colophon.

"Printed at the Old Funeral Parlor on Vinalhaven, Maine. Silkscreened on Rives BFK 100% Rag printmaking paper in an edition of 25."--Colophon.

Signed by the artists.

The book was produced for a traveling show entitled "Science and the Artists' Book", produced jointly by The Smithsonian Institution Library and The Washington Project for the Arts, and which opened in May of 1995 in Washington D.C.