This luxury edition of 5 signed and numbered books is presented in a silk box designed and built by Small Editions. It measures 12 1⁄2 x 16 inches. The book is entirely handcrafted from the binding to the photogravure and silkscreen images printed on handmade Japanese Mura Udaban paper. The texts are letterpress on Japanese Sekishu tissue. Lux Perpetua features twenty hand-pulled photogravures measuring 7 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2 inches, two double-page foldouts, and two full bleed double-page spreads.
Lux Perpetua
Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Text by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Photographs by Josephine Sacabo
Text by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Signed & numbered limited edition of 5
12 ½ x 16 inches
116 pages, 20 single-page hand-pulled photogravures, 2 double-page hand-pulled photogravures
Cover/Enclosure: Foil-stamped hardcover in clamshell box
Binding: sewn
Paper: images – handmade Japanese Mura Udaban, texts – Japanese Sekishu tissue
Design by Jacqueline Miro
Photogravures printed by Meg Turner & Jennifer Shaw
Hand-bound by Small Editions
Letterpress executed by John Fitzgerald
Published by Luna Press 2017
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