Research Catalog

Title

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats ..." : Wind in the willows, Kenneth Grahame / screenprinted by Allan Grant ; calligraphy/design: Dave Wood.

Author

Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932.

Publication

[Pomona, Qld. : Dave Wood, 2009]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wood, Dave (David Thomas)
• Grant, Allan.

Description

[18] leaves : col. ill.; 34 cm.

Uniform Title

Wind in the willows. Selections

Alternative Title

• Wind in the willows.
• Messing about in boats
• Wind in the willows original artist book

Subjects

• Artist's books > Australia > 21st century
• Calligraphy > Australia > 21st century
• Boats and boating in art
• Wood, Dave (David Thomas)
• Unique books > Australia > 21st century
• Calligraphy > Specimens

Genre/Form

• Artist's books – Australia – 21st century.
• Unique books – Australia – 21st century.
• Calligraphy – Australia – 21st century.

Note

• Cover title.
• Unique artist's book, signed by Wood and dated "October 2009."
• Each page or double-page spread incorporates part of a screenprinted reproduction of a single calligraphic image by Wood, depicting a ship with a calligraphed excerpt from Kenneth Grahame's The wind in the willows, printed on black paper embossed with a wave design. Wood has inscribed further calligraphed excerpts from the book on each print. Last leaf is folded; unfolded, it displays the entire, unaltered screenprint.
• "[Wood] conceived the idea of creating a book using some existing serigraph prints which he had had for many years, as the basis of an original work ... This book was an interesting challenge to make a coherent design of the entire book using the same print source without each page looking similar ... It enabled him to create different design elements as well as colour components and appropriate letterforms to convey the movement and energy of this text. Original lettering was combined with the existing screen[p]rinted letterforms, integrating subtle colour formations as well as some airbrushing"--Dave Wood's Web site, retrieved July 26, 2011.

Binding (note)

• Issued in illustrated black paper-covered boards, stabbed and sewn with a black cord, Japanese style; eight small colored glass fish are suspended from the ends of the cord. Front cover has a copy of the print folded accordion-style to present a riged surface. "The cover was created making a miniature concertina fold, using the entire graphic in this process. It was then hand bound using a simple binding"--Dave Wood's Web site. Issued in a purple and black cardboard box, with a fragment of the print mounted on box cover.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Australian 2009 11-130

OCLC

743326851

Author

Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932.

Title

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats ..." : Wind in the willows, Kenneth Grahame / screenprinted by Allan Grant ; calligraphy/design: Dave Wood.

Imprint

[Pomona, Qld. : Dave Wood, 2009]

Binding

Issued in illustrated black paper-covered boards, stabbed and sewn with a black cord, Japanese style; eight small colored glass fish are suspended from the ends of the cord. Front cover has a copy of the print folded accordion-style to present a riged surface. "The cover was created making a miniature concertina fold, using the entire graphic in this process. It was then hand bound using a simple binding"--Dave Wood's Web site. Issued in a purple and black cardboard box, with a fragment of the print mounted on box cover.

Place of Publication

Australia Queensland Pomona.

Added Author

Wood, Dave (David Thomas) Calligrapher

Grant, Allan. Printer of plates

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Australian 2009 11-130