Book of hours

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Richmond
Rare Books and Special Collections
Boatwright Library
University of Richmond
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA 23173
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Lynda Kachurek
Phone: (804) 289-8458
Fax: (804) 287-1840

Background

Physical description:
"This book was printed using letterpress, digital and Risograph printing on Mohawk Superfine and Hahnemühle Bugra paper. Binding was completed at Flying Fish Press and Coyote Bones Press. Box designed and fabricated by Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder. Special thanks to Joseph Gage who did all the Risograph printing ... and to Craig Jensen for ... assistance with the foil stamping."--Colophon In red cloth box stamped in bright blue. Opens with four triangle shaped flaps that meet in the middle. Printed paper label on spine.
Physical facet:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations + box
Dimensions:
28 cm
Material specific details:
"Book of Hours was designed and created by Julie Chen & Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder. This long-distance collaboration, between California and Texas, took place during the 2020-21 pandemic. The format of Book of Hours is known as a blow book, a historical structure originally designed as a magic trick which allows the presenter to show completely different visual sequences of pages within the same book. Book of Hours contains 12 distinct sequences. The first and last sequences on each side of the book were designed by the two artists collaboratively, and the other eight sequences were designed individually by each artist. These different narratives exist concurrently within the same space and time of this book but are activated sequentially by the reader. The cone motif used throughout this book was inspired by the concept of the light cone which in general and special relativity denotes a single point in space and time." -- Flying Fish Press website. Limited edition of 88 copies, signed by both artists. Rare Books Room copy is edition 32 of 88 copies.