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(CAROLINGIAN PRESS.) Burgess, Molly. Still. 48 letterpress text pages on, and interleaved with, decorative, multi-color handmade Japanese rice papers. Square 8vo, Japanese butterfly binding of rice paper wrappers bound in gold threads; portfolio of silk with panels lined in red, blue, green, yellow, and black Chinese silk, mother-of-pearl clasps with gold thread ties by the Lethryn Workshop, Philadelphia; prospectus with full explanatory text laid in. Stockton, N.J., 1975
number 4 of only 25 copies of Burgess's "artist's book of visual poems and Eastern meditations." A beautiful and creative livre d'artiste that translates Zen, Mahayana, and Theravada Buddhist writings onto the pages with thoughtfully typographed words intended to create a meditative stillness.
