Out and about
By: Ed Hutchins
Contributors: Editions (Firm)
Publisher: Editions
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Mt. Vernon, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Toy and movable books; Specimens
Notes: Miniature artist's book consisting of an accordion-folded paper strip (48 x 740 mm) with color-illustrated movable parts, folded to 52 mm and bound in green silk; placed in a corrugated cardboard box (63 x 65 x 40 mm) with a papier-mâché frog and waterlily on cover; printed title labels on both book and box.

"Designed, stenciled, Gocco-printed, cutout, and assembled at the Editions Workshop, Mt. Vernon, New York" -- Colophon.

Edition of 30 copies.

The text block slides out of the back cover for a panoramic view.

"A springtime romp features a fluttering butterfly, a buzzing bee, a hovering dragonfly, a leaping frog, a wandering turtle, and a flash of blinking fireflies"-- Artist's description.

Digital images may be viewed via internet at the Editions Web site. Address as of 7/30/07: http://www.artistbooks.com/editions/outandabout.shtml