In One Volume, 2021
Kate Bernstein, Bath, UK
Produced for the project Dante: Libri Nuovi – for the celebration of the work and life of Dante in this the 700th year since his death, is a multi-layered response to Dante’s Commedia and the translators and artists who have been inspired by it. With an interplay of abstraction and colour, which includes drawing after Botticelli, the heraldic red and silver of the Florentine Guelphs and text in the vernacular. The book has a three-part structure; a case binding with a leather tie closure contains a folio, within which is a concertina with a projecting central form that implies a book. The tie is printed with Cayley’s translation of Inferno, Canto V, in which Minos wraps his tail around a sinner, signifying to which circle of Hell he should be sent.
Edition 12, 235 x 160mm (concertina ext. 540 x 210mm).
£95 (plus P&P and insurance)