Elisabeth Tonnard

The Book of the World

scan012.jpg

A one-of-a-kind book, typed on a Smith-Corona typewriter. The book is about itself, the reader, and the rest of the world. And it uses 24 words for accomplishing this. Archival paper, handbound. 12 pages. Rochester, NY 2006 (and later, dated when typed). See more images.

This book is sold out.

It is available in the collections of the Bodleian Library (special collections at the Weston Library), Chelsea College of Arts at the University of the Arts London, Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature, Kunstbibliothek (Berlin), and National Library of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek).

Written by Elisabeth Tonnard

March 17, 2008 at 9:05 pm