Colophon: Hand-printed in 2016 in an edition of 125. ... Its contents were produces using three separate printing techniques. The text, photographs, and scanned materials were offset printed at Columbia College Chicago. The linoleum-cut illustrations were letterpress printed at both Columbia College and Spudnik Press in Chicago. The covers were screen printed at Spudnik Press.
Each title has separate colophon signed and numbered by the artist.
Created with funding from the Caxton Club of Chicago & the Albert P. Weisman Award.
AAPGAB copy 39088016282360 gift of Jacqueline Vossler
AAPGAB copy 39088016282360 is number 7 of 125 and signed by the artist
Summary:
"Out of the Dark/Into the Water is an edition of 125 hand-printed and hand-bound artist books about the life and work of Oliver Robert Batsel, an American collector of exotic artifacts and art objects from around the world. Batsel spent his life gathering clothing, documents, jewelry, photographs, and other ephemera related to the Empyreal Trading Company (E.T.C.), a small mercantile enterprise which operated from the 17th through the 19th centuries. In 2004, after decades of amassing the most complete E.T.C. collection in the world, Batsel lost his life when Hurricane Ivan leveled his beachside Florida home. The house, the collection, and Batsel himself were swept out to sea. Now, over a decade later, Batsel's granddaughter, Hannah, has begun to excavate the sand lot where the house once stood, recovering pieces of Batsel's story and restoring the artifacts to which he dedicated his life"--Artist's website (viewed Decemeber 15, 2016).