artist’s book: type C photographs, typesetting, embossing, 64 pages, leather cover, hand stitched binding
Measurements
24.8 × 19.8 cm (page) 25.8 × 21.0 × 2.6 cm (closed) 25.8 × 43.3 cm (open)
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Edition
ed. 10/10
Inscription
embossed in silver on front cover u.c.: ...FROM THE / SECRET LIFE / OF STATUES embossed in silver on spine u.c.: LYSSIOTIS / FROM / THE / SECRET / LIFE OF / STATUES embossed on fronticepiece c.: ...FROM THE SECRET / LIFE OF STATUES typeset in ink on fronticepiece l.c.: MASTERTHIEF ENTERPRISES typset in ink on page nine c.: PETER LYSSIOTIS typeset in ink and inscribed in blue fibre-tipped pen on page fifty-five u.l.: ...From The Secret Life Of Statues was made in an / edition of ten copies during the second bleak year of the / Kennet Liberal government’s reign in Victoria – 1994. / The photographs are Agfacolor CN312, Type 8 prints / and are mounted with acid free tape. Text is hand-set in 118 pt. Garaldus and letterpress printed on Velin Lana / Royal 140 gsm, acid free stock. Sections are French sewn / on tapes, bound in full leather glazed kid, with lettering in / silver foil by Nick Doslov – Renaissance Bookbinding. / Each book has been signed and numbered by the artist. / You have just leafed through copy number 10 / P Lyssiotis
