Books from the exhibition
Exhibition Sponsors
Bartkowiak's Best: Book Art from the Hamburg Archives
In the SFCB Gallery Jan 26-Apr 27, 2007
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Bound for the Goldfields The Wayzgoose Press; Katoomba, Australia; 1990 Author: anonymous Illustrator/Artist: Mike Hudson Printers: Mike Hudson, Jadwiga Jarris Binder: Mike Hudson Contact: wayzgoose@pacific.com.au Nine meters of continuous text and illustrations folded into 33 pages and bound as a concertina. Hand set and printed in Monotype Baskerville on Mohawk letterpress paper. Illustrated with linocuts and wood engravings. Edition of 55. The anonymous text was first published by Charles Dickens in his weekly journal Household Words in 1855. It is a true account of a journey from Melbourne to Castlemaine written by a carrier of supplies to the goldfields. "In our modern version," says Mike Hudson, "the lines of text were gently bent and printed in graded shades so that they form an integral part of the grasslands which were once the main feature of the journey. The book is read from top to bottom (as in a folded scroll), while viewed horizontally it presents a panoramic landscape of the Australian bush." Mike Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis established Wayzgoose Press in 1985 with the aim of producing entirely hand-made limited edition books and broadsides dealing primarily, though not exclusively, with Australian prose and poetry. Since its inception, the press has produced 20 books, 45 broadsides and close to 100 items of printed ephemera. | |||
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