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My PET book is, according to World Cat, held in 23 libraries.  Most are in the United States, 10 are in New England, PA, NY, and Mid-Atlantic state liberal arts colleges; 5 are in major southern state universities  and 3 in CA; one in Illinois, as well as one at the library of Congress.  There … Read more

Gaynell’s Blog Post #3 Despite the title indicating that my Pet Book is an alphabet book, it is not highlighting the alphabet in an instructive way, so I would hesitate to classify it as an abcedaria[1].   The connection to ABCs is structural as the animals are included based on the first letters of their common … Read more

            This book is made up of folios, full printmaking paper size folded in half, with 4 pages an extended size folded in (these measurements are detailed in the first blog post).  I appreciate that the heft of this book, perhaps “cumbersome” to some book-lovers, is reflective of the heft I feel for extinctions of … Read more

Extinction has limited these animals to only being “pets” in the imaginary realm conjured up by the book artist’s printmaking process. I’ve adopted this book for the processes and collaborations that have gone into it’s creation. First to note is the book’s heft. It is folio size, meaning in bookbinder terms, a full sheet of … Read more