MOODY (Sarah)

Ornography

One of 100 copies, this number 42, signed by the printer on limitation page. Title page in grey, black and red, typographic ornaments printed in black, and occasional grey, throughout. 12mo., 13.5 x 9.5cm, [30]pp. Original publisher’s red and grey patterned paper wrappers, paper spine label lettered in black, original grey slipcase, prospectus loosely tipped in. New York, designed, set and printed by Sarah Moody as part of her apprenticeship in Russel Maret’s studio, 2023.

£225.00

Fine.

Sarah Moody began an apprenticeship at the studio of Russell Maret in November 2020, and has since served as the primary printer for a number of his books including Three Constitutions, A Checklist of the First Sixty Books, and Colored Objects. Ornography is the first book which Moody has designed and printed from start to finish while working at Maret’s studio, making use of his varied collection of typographical ornaments and flowers which had long sat unused; the impetus for printing the book was the chance discovery of a sonnet by Wilder Bentley which includes the lines “Art’s perverts and subverters are a blight on all the arts, like printers that hoard flowers yet never use them”.

Stock No.
251649