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Very Brief Chaucer Reader
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales c. 500.

Item date(s): 1993

Judith Mason

Pages: 6pp
Size: 195 x 150 x 100mm
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist
Edition: Unique

Place publication: (Cape Town, RSA)
Publisher: Artists Book
Cat. 194
Exhibition 1996; 2019

Additional notes:
Metal (band saw blade), rust and gold leaf. Text on six blades and metal on wooden base: "IF GOLD RUSTE WHAT SHAL IREN DO."

Under base: "Made from salvaged metal (rusted bandsaw blades) and gold leaf".

Exhibition notes:
Item 194 in the exhibition "Artists Books in the Ginsberg Collection" at the Johannesburg Art Gallery 25/8/96-27/10/96.

Samplings: South African Artists' Books

Basement Gallery, WAM

26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/09840