BENGAL STORY.
- London: Susan Allix, 2006.
- square 12mo (11 x 12 cm)
- A fine Art Binding, bound in leather goatskin and mixed media, produced in its entirety by SUSAN ALLIX, housed in a handmade clam shell box
- (27) leaves
Price: $3,500.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 141963
Privately printed in an edition of 25 numbered copies signed by Susan Allix, of which this is one of a few on Magnani Aqueforti paper. A fine copy in fine publisher's decorated clamshell box.
These three stories, from Bengal, from Orissa to the south, and the Himalayan province of Sikkim to the north, are influenced by local images in their telling. The inset mirror is from Pipli in Orissa where mirrors are extensively used in textiles depicting Jagganath. The bird and plant lino-cuts derive from Sikkimese painted wood-carving and the etchings for Miss Sanderson were drawn 'in situ' in Calcutta. The coloured and textured papers were brought from Gangtok, in Sikkim, where they were made by hand.
The book is printed letterpress in hand set Plantin.
Born in 1934, Susan Allix attended the Royal College of Art to become skilled in bookbinding and typesetting. Her book art is held in many public and private collections worldwide, with the most concentrated collections being held in the UK, at Yale, and at the Smithsonian.