Every nib
By: Laura Davidson
Contributors: Oedel, Marie, box maker
Publisher: Laura Davidson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Notes: Title from cover of clamshell box.

"... a tactile catalog of the nibs and pens used to create [Davidson's] work ..."--Artist's description.

" ... The box opens to reveal a book and seven realistic looking open nibs made by forming paper and painting them with ink ..."--Artist's description.

"The accordion book is bound with wire and hand sewn with linen. Five pages each have images of five pen nibs rendered in hand-colored block prints, with catalog information about each nib written in ink. On each page there is also a delicately drawn pen in silverpoint ... On the sixth page, the artist's statement is handwritten with a Sheaffer's fountain pen, circa 1940 ..."--Artist's description.

Clamshell box by Marie Oedel.

Issued in an edition of 18 copies, each signed and numbered and in a protective card-stock fold-over portfolio.